Exam 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Alex was an African Grey parrot who displayed

The chimpanzee Sultan used a short stick to pull a longer stick that was out of reach into his cage. He then used the longer stick to reach a piece of fruit. Researchers hypothesized that Sultan's discovery of the solution to his problem was the result of

Mentally segmenting other's spoken sounds into individual words best illustrates a 7-month-old's capacity for

During the earliest stage of speech development, infants

Fluid intelligence refers most directly to a person's

In one massive study of 11,000 twin pairs in four countries, the heritability of general intelligence was found to be greatest during

Assessing current competence is to ________ tests as predicting future performance is to ________ tests.

The normal curve would represent the distribution of

Many people who are bilingual experience a different sense of self, depending on which language they are using. This most clearly illustrates the implications of

Males' mental ability scores show greater ________ than females' mental ability scores.

Howard Gardner is most likely to agree that the concept of intelligence includes

Gestures are especially likely to be associated with speech that has ________ content.

In testing thousands of different materials for use as light bulb filaments, Thomas Edison best illustrated a problem-solving approach known as

Intelligence tests are most likely to be considered culturally biased in terms of their

Damage to ________ will usually cause a person to lose the ability to comprehend language.

Males' reading ability scores vary ________ than females' scores and males' math test performance scores vary ________ than females' scores.

In addition to an overall intelligence score, the WAIS provides separate scores for such skills as

Psychologists would be likely to agree that

On which of the following tasks are men most likely to outperform women?

Experts who defend intelligence tests against the charge of being culturally biased and discriminatory would be most likely to highlight the ________ of intelligence tests.