Exam 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Weather forecasters typically avoid overconfidence when making weather predictions because they

U.S. employees who formerly wanted to defer part of their compensation to a 401(k) retirement plan typically had to lower their take-home pay as they "opted in" to the plan. Now companies are being encouraged to enroll their employees in the 401(k) plan automatically while allowing them to choose to raise their take-home pay by "opting-out" of the 401(k) plan. Under the "opting out" rather than "opt-in" system, enrollments in 401(k) plans soared. This best illustrates the impact of

In suggesting that our ancestral history has prepared us to fear snakes, psychologists are emphasizing that what we fear is influenced by

Divergent thinking involves

People's implicit memory of how to open the front door of their house is most likely to consist of

Noam Chomsky suggested that all human languages share a(n)

Damage to different cortical areas results in different forms of aphasia. This best illustrates that language processing involves multiple

Women have scored ________ on math tests when no male test-takers were in the tested group, and Blacks have scored ________ when tested by Blacks than when tested by Whites.

An important aspect of social intelligence is called

Noam Chomsky argues that children's readiness to learn language is a(n)

Block design puzzles are used in one of the subtests of the

When Brandon was told that he correctly answered 80 percent of the items on a math achievement test, he asked how his performance compared with that of the average test-taker. Brandon's concern was directly related to the issue of

It has been suggested that Alaskan Eskimos' rich vocabulary for describing snow enables them to perceive differences in snow conditions that would otherwise go unnoticed. This suggestion most clearly illustrates

Which of the following terms refers to a person's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills?

An impairment of language is known as

The impact of early environmental influences on intelligence is most apparent among young children who experience

Professor Pegler's research efforts focus on how the use of heuristics influences the way people assess financial risks. Which specialty area does his research best represent?

An IQ of approximately 70 or below and difficulty adapting to the normal demands of life is most clearly an indication of

Which of the following terms refers to a person's ability to reason speedily and abstractly?

Research on the determinants of intelligence indicates that