Exam 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Most people take less time to identify a cow as a mammal than a mouse as a mammal because a cow more closely resembles their mammal

As a result of an automobile accident, Jenny suffered damage to her cerebral cortex in Broca's area. Jenny is most likely to experience

During prior school years, Charlie found it easy to get away with cheating on his tests. Now its not so easy so Charlie spends as many hours devising new ways to cheat as it would take him to study and perform well in an honest fashion. Charlie's shortsightedness best illustrates the consequences of

In his study of children with high intelligence scores, Terman found that

A single, memorable case of welfare fraud can have a greater impact on people's estimates of welfare abuse than do statistics showing that this case is actually the exception to the rule. This illustrates that judgments are influenced by

In developing a test of intellectual ability for Parisian schoolchildren, Binet and Simon assumed that

The WAIS was designed for testing ________ intelligence, whereas the WISC was designed for testing ________ intelligence.

In the words helped and called, the "ed" ending is a(n)

To find Tabasco sauce in a large grocery store, you could systematically search every shelf in every store aisle. This best illustrates problem solving by means of

It is difficult to explain language acquisition solely in terms of imitation and reinforcement because children

Researchers who are convinced that animals can think point to evidence that

Among entering American collegians, men are ________ likely than women to spend many hours playing video games. Playing action video games has been observed to ________ players' spatial abilities.

A European visitor to the United States asked a taxi driver, "Can you please a ride to the airport me give?" This visitor has apparently not yet mastered the ________ of the English language.

Wernicke's area is a region of the brain involved in

Infants are first able to discriminate speech sounds during the ________ stage.

Our ability to learn a new language

A bell-shaped pattern that characterizes the distribution of a large sample of intelligence test scores is a graphic representation of a

The formula for the intelligence quotient was devised by

A high school counselor gave Amy a test designed to predict whether she could learn to become a successful architect. Amy most likely took a(n) ________ test.

Howard Gardner identified a total of ________ relatively independent intelligences.