Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

Which parts of the brain have been of specific interest to those who study the neuroscience perspective of intelligence?

Researchers typically stress that a key aspect of intelligence is ________.

According to Robert Sternberg, ________ is best described as "street smarts," or the ability to use information to get along in life. People who have it know how to be tactful, how to manipulate situations to their advantage, and how to use inside information to increase their odds of success.

The system of rules that governs how we combine words to form grammatical sentences is called ________.

Like most characteristics of a population, WAIS-IV scores are distributed in a bell or normal curve. Which of the following is an accurate characteristic of those types of curves?

If intelligence is determined primarily by heredity, which pair should show the highest correlation between IQ scores?

A block to problem solving that comes from thinking about objects only in terms of their most common or typical use is called ________.

Every time he loses his wallet, Ricardo cannot stop checking the back pocket of the pants he is wearing. He knows the wallet is not there, and yet he continues to put his hand in the pocket to check just "one more time." This tendency to try to solve problems in the same way every time is called ________.

An IQ test is developed that supposedly measures people's intelligence. It is given to a large and random sample of college students. It is found that the test correlates in a highly positive manner with the students' GPAs. The test designer may be justified in claiming that the test is valid.

A form of intelligence that refers to how effectively people perceive and understand their own feelings and the feelings of others, is ________ intelligence.

The concept of generalized intelligence is largely based on the theories of ________.

All parents think their little kids are geniuses. However, to be classified as a genius, the IQ score must be above ________.

The term Terman's Termites refers to ________.

A person who comes up with as many different uses of a brick as possible, such as using them for doorstops, is a ________ thinker.

Fragile X, Down syndrome, and fetal alcohol syndrome are all potential causes of intellectual disability.

A seemingly arbitrary flash "out of the blue," through which the solution to a problem suddenly becomes apparent to you, but you do not consciously know how you "figured it out," is called ________.

Psychological tests that yield relatively consistent results are said to be ________.

It would take the same amount of time to correctly identify an olive as a fruit as it would to correctly identify an apple as a fruit.

At the current time, which statement is TRUE about our knowledge of whether animals can use humanlike language?

Researchers have found that ________ influenced by culture.