Exam 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Dr. Bronfman has administered her new 100-item test of abstract reasoning to a large sample of students. She is presently comparing their scores on the odd-numbered questions with those on the even-numbered questions in an effort to

After a skydiving accident, Laurie was unable to make sense of other people's speech. It is likely that she suffered brain damage to

The ability to delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-range rewards is most clearly a characteristic associated with

Superior performance on the Stanford-Binet most clearly corresponds with Sternberg's concept of

By encouraging people to imagine their homes being destroyed by winds from a hurricane, insurance salespeople are especially successful at selling large homeowners' policies. They are most clearly exploiting the influence of

Introductory psychology students facing a midterm exam one week later spent five minutes each day visualizing themselves scanning the posted grade list, seeing their A grade, and feeling proud. This ________ simulation had ________ effect on their exam scores.

When forming a concept, people often develop a best example, or ________, of a category.

Animal trainers' expectations may have led them to interpret some chimpanzees' signs as indicative of greater linguistic ability than is warranted. This best illustrates the shortcoming of

A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related test items that seem to tap a common ability is called

The heritability of intelligence among children of less-educated parents is relatively

Narrowing available problem solutions to the single best solution illustrates

Who is most likely to be criticized for extending the definition of intelligence to an overly broad range of talents?

Which of the following observations provides the BEST evidence that intelligence test scores are influenced by environment?

J. McVicker Hunt began a training program for caregivers in an Iranian orphanage. This program trained caregivers to

Performance-impairing anxiety is most closely associated with

Bilingual people have a somewhat ________ vocabulary in each language than do people who speak a single language, and bilingual people are ________ able to inhibit their attention to irrelevant information than are monolingual people.

Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to

Prototype is to category as ________ is to ________.

With increasing age, adopted children's verbal ability scores become ________ positively correlated with their adoptive parents' scores and ________ positively correlated with their biological parent's scores.

Some people are unable to arrange six matches to form four equilateral triangles because they fail to consider a three-dimensional arrangement. This best illustrates the effects of ________ on problem solving.