Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

Let's say we could teach a dolphin to understand the difference between the sentences "The parrot kissed the dolphin" and "The dolphin kissed the parrot." If this were demonstrated,it might mean the dolphin had an understanding of ____________.

In a heuristic called ___________,a person determines the difference between the current situation and the goal and then tries to reduce that difference by various methods.

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?

Which of the following groups of children is most likely to have the most similar IQ scores?

To which of the following groups of people is the Stanford-Binet LEAST suited?

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

When soldiers in the military sustain head injuries,there is a ____% likelihood that these injuries would be categorized as moderate to severe.

A male has a thin,frail-looking area on his X chromosome of the 23rd pair.As children,people with this syndrome are typically mildly developmentally delayed but shift to severe or profound developmental delay as adults.This is known as _______.

Jordan is a 10-year-old boy who has a mental age of 8 years.His IQ would be ________.

Frank mistakenly believes that there are more words that begin with the letter "k" than there are with the letter "k" in the third position due to the ________.

If you took the WAIS-IV when you were 18 and again when you were 25,and the scores were the same,what could you conclude?

PET scans have demonstrated that when you are creating a visual image ____________.

Parrots seem to talk.They utter words that sound like human language.Thus,can this behavior be thought to be speech? Which statement about parrots is supported by the research?

Jane is 22 years old.For her job,she needs to take an intelligence test.Which would be the most appropriate test for her age group?

Explain the techniques used when someone tries to solve a problem.How might a person be blocked in trying to find a solution?

Pragmatics are defined as _____________.

What systematic problem-solving method guarantees a solution,provided that one exists?

The trial-and-error method of solving problems is also known as ______________.

The sounds t,th,and sh are ______.

According to the Terman "Termites" study,the gifted population had a median income that was __________________.