Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Members of virtually any group can experience a decline in performance due to stereotype threat. Describe the results of the various studies that looked at stereotype threat and racial identity, ethnic groups, age, gender, and socioeconomic status.

Describe two examples of research investigating the use of symbolic communication in nonhuman animals.

Jacylyn and Jade are identical twins who were raised in different homes, but nevertheless have very similar IQ scores. This example provides support primarily for the influence of _____ on intelligence or IQ.

According to Louis Thurstone, primary mental abilities are relatively independent elements of intelligence and include verbal comprehension, numerical ability, reasoning, and perceptual speed.

Twenty-five-year-old Connor is six feet two inches tall. According to your textbook, his present height is a result of:

On the WAIS, the _____ score represents subtest scores on verbal tasks, such as vocabulary, comprehension, and general knowledge; the _____ score represents subtest scores on nonverbal tasks, such as identifying missing parts in incomplete pictures, arranging pictures to tell a story, or arranging blocks to match a pattern.

Which of the following is the BEST definition of heuristic?

Children who simultaneously learn two languages suffer learning problems and have lower intelligence than do monolinguals.

The Flynn effect provides support for the influence of the environment in determining IQ scores.

In a phenomenon known as _____, awareness of positive expectations can actually improve performance on tasks.

Wechsler's test provided scores on 11 subtests measuring different abilities, which were grouped to provide an overall _____ and _____ for the test taker.

The research of Lewis Terman indicated that differences in success among adults who had been highly intelligent children were attributable to personality factors.

Exemplars are stored memories of examples of a particular concept.

A normal distribution is a bell-shaped distribution of scores in which most scores cluster around the mean.

According to the In Focus box "Neurodiversity: Beyond IQ," about _____ of people with autism spectrum disorder are autistic savants who have some extraordinary talent or ability in math, music, or art.

Intelligence theorist Louis Thurstone disagreed with Spearman's notion that intelligence is a single, general mental capacity.

One important property of language is displacement, meaning that speakers can generate an infinite number of new and different phrases and sentences.

When Valerie decides to return to college, she has to figure out how she is going to support herself financially and still maintain a high grade-point average. Valerie is engaged in:

Michelle Dawson and her colleagues gave autistic children and adults, and a matched group of nonautistic individuals, a Wechsler-based intelligence test and the Raven's Progressive Matrices test. What were the results of this research?

The In Focus box "Neurodiversity: Beyond IQ" presents information on the idea of neurodiversity and notes that people with a mild form of autism spectrum disorder typically: