Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

The Focus on Neuroscience box, "Seeing Faces and Places in the Mind's Eye," reports on an fMRI study of mental imagery. What was the central question being investigated in the fMRI study?

Jill, a psychology major, was fascinated by a television special she saw about a psychologist who was testing the ability of ravens to solve novel problems, such as retrieving food that was hanging from a long string. If Jill wanted to do similar research, what area of psychology should she pursue?

Melita Oden compared the 100 most successful men (the A group) with the 100 least successful men (the C group) from Lewis Terman's original sample of 1,500 children with genius-level intelligence. Given that the IQ scores of the A and C groups were essentially the same, what accounted for the difference in their level of accomplishment?

Children of Burakumin who have immigrated to the United States from Japan do as well in school and on IQ tests as other Japanese Americans, but Burakumin children who remain in Japan, where they face social discrimination, score lower on IQ tests than other Japanese children do.

Emma overheard the driver education instructor rant and rave about how the girls in Emma's group were the worst drivers he'd ever had the misfortune to teach in his 30 years of teaching high school students to drive. When it was Emma's turn to practice her driving skills with the instructor, she performed worse than usual, forgetting to use turn signals, turning the wheel the wrong way when backing up, and running over two plastic cones when attempting to parallel park. What is the MOST likely explanation for Emma's poor performance behind the wheel?

Problem solving is defined as:

Describe and explain the implications of the study by Stephen Kosslyn and his colleagues that involved memorizing locations on a map of a fictitious island.

Your text notes the misuse of group intelligence tests shortly after World War I. Specifically, group intelligence tests were inappropriately administered to:

In Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, analytic intelligence refers to the mental processes used in learning how to solve problems.

Alfred Binet developed a series of tests measuring different mental abilities in order to identify schoolchildren who could benefit from special help.

An algorithm is a method that always produces the correct solution when it is followed step by step.

An aptitude test is designed to measure a person's capacity to benefit from education or training.

According to the In Focus box on neurodiversity, about 10 percent of autistic people are autistic savants who have some extraordinary talent or ability in math, music, or art.

Who translated and revised Binet's intelligence test for use in the United States?

Mary had trouble recognizing that snails can be a food because snails did not fit with her _____ of food.

Which one of the following intelligence tests did David Wechsler develop?

Wechsler's intelligence test (the WAIS) was specifically designed to test _____ rather than _____.

According to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, one of the distinct intelligences is the ability to understand one's own emotions, motives, and intentions.

As the Chapter 7 Prologue discusses, Tom has been diagnosed with a mild form of autism spectrum disorder. According to the In Focus box on neurodiversity, Tom is likely to show normal, even advanced language development, to have narrow interests and inflexible behavior, and, by definition, to have an IQ in the normal to above-average level.

The research of Lewis Terman found that highly intelligent children tended to be socially awkward and physically clumsy.