Exam 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

The criterion/criteria for being diagnosed with an intellectual disability is/are

In the early twentieth century,the U.S.government developed intelligence tests to evaluate newly arriving immigrants.Poor test scores among immigrants who were not of Anglo-Saxon heritage were attributed by some psychologists of that day to

Research suggests that girls are more skilled than boys at

When does the babbling stage generally begin?

Research findings suggest that the best advice to give people who want to avoid belief perseverance is

The ability to produce words is to productive language as the ability to comprehend speech is to ________ language.

Which procedure is used to identify the different dimensions of performance that underlie people's intelligence scores?

The U.S.National Longitudinal Survey of Youth showed ________ correlation between youths' intelligence test scores and their subsequent

Which of the following is FALSE regarding adoption and intelligence?

J.McVicker Hunt observed children in an Iranian orphanage being raised in an extremely deprived environment.These children were passive and cognitively immature.Hunt's successful training program for Iranian caregivers encouraged them to engage in ________ with these infants.

The distribution of intelligence test scores in the general population forms a bell-shaped pattern.This pattern is called

Although Nicole scored well above average on an academic aptitude test,she frequently loses her temper and needlessly antagonizes even her best friends.Her behavior best illustrates a low level of

When Luke was 17 years old,his intelligence test score was below 98 percent of all test-takers.Now at the age of 23,he needs adult supervision because he is not able to adapt to the normal demands of independent living.Luke most clearly meets the requirements for being assigned a diagnosis of

After spending two hours trying to solve an engineering problem,Amira finally gave up.As she was trying to fall asleep that night,a solution to the problem popped into her head.Amira's experience best illustrates

Workplace managers who want to foster novel ideas and adaptive responses to new challenges should try to promote the ________ of their employees.

Although intuition can at times hinder rationality,it is often adaptive because it facilitates

Why is Amanda,a preschooler,able to pick up language easily and use grammar so well,according to Chomsky?

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.

Native German speakers who pronounce the English word "this" as "dis" are demonstrating their difficulty with an English

A mental set is most likely to inhibit