Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

"The global capacity to think rationally, act purposefully, and deal effectively with the environment" is:

Several problems have been assigned as part of your physics homework. One problem asks you to determine the relative velocity of a variety of moving objects. To answer the question, you solve a complex mathematical equation. Which problem-solving strategy are you using?

Children who simultaneously learn two languages suffer from confusion and do not learn either language properly.

The first step in effective problem solving is to consider all possible solutions for a problem.

The fact that IQ scores have remained relatively stable in the United States and 14 other nations since World War II, despite improvements in nutrition and education, is evidence that supports the idea that intelligence is primarily due to genetics.

The term heritability refers to the:

List the five characteristics of language, and give an example of each.

Parents with children in day care may be motivated to embrace research findings that emphasize the benefits of day care for young children and discount findings that emphasize the benefits of home-based care. This is an example of the:

Genetically diverse seeds are planted in two separate pots. One pot has rich soil and one pot has poor soil. Within each pot, some of the plants are taller than others. When the average height of the plants in each pot is compared, the plants in the rich soil are, on the average, taller than the plants in the poor soil. What valid conclusion can be drawn about the difference between the seeds in the two pots?

A test designed to assess a person's capacity to benefit from education or training is called a(n):

Psychologist Lewis Terman tracked 1,500 California schoolchildren with high IQs throughout their lives. The general finding was that:

Comparative cognition is a field of psychology that focuses on cross-cultural research on problem solving, language, and intelligence.

While evaluating evidence that seems to confirm a hoped-for finding, people may overlook flaws in the research or argument. This is an example of the:

While Mary was reading a story about the Australian outback adventures of Billy and his dog, she had no problem visualizing the arid countryside, the unusual animals that lived there, and the various people that Billy and his dog met in their journeys. Mary was using:

Concepts provide a kind of mental shorthand, economizing the cognitive effort required for thinking and communication.

Cognition refers to the mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge.

A new approach to autistic spectrum disorders called neurodiversity involves the recognition that people with autistic spectrum symptoms process information, communicate, and experience their social and physical environments differently than neurotypical people, who don't have autistic symptoms.

Contrast the ways in which formal concepts and natural concepts are formed, and give an original example of each.

Describe the experimental procedure and major findings of Kathleen O'Craven and Nancy Kanwisher's fMRI study of mental imagery involving faces and places.

_____ is a strategy in which the likelihood of an event is estimated by comparing how similar it is to the typical prototype of the event.