Exam 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

The average kitchen remodeling project ends up costing about twice as much as homeowners expect.This best illustrates

Compared with Gardner,Sternberg has identified ________ independent dimensions of intelligence,and his forms of intelligence have been ________ reliably measured.

________ are grammatical rules that guide us in deriving meaning from sounds.

Who identified nine independent intelligences,including the verbal and math aptitudes that can be assessed by standardized tests?

A group of people of very similar age who are participants in a longitudinal study are called a

Eva has an intellectual disability and has problems making friends.She is picked on frequently by her peers and has difficulty engaging and communicating with others.She also has problems following basic rules of games that they play during class.Which area of independent living is she having difficulties with?

The heritability of intelligence refers to

Research participants were asked to identify a word that would form a compound word or phrase with each of three other words.Solutions that occurred with sudden insight were accompanied by a burst of activity in the brain's ________ lobe.

Professor Chadwick evaluated a graduate student's research proposal negatively simply because he had heard a rumor about the student's incompetence.When later informed that the rumor had been patently false,the professor's assessment of the student's research proposal remained almost as negative as it had been originally.This best illustrates

When Professor McGuire asks her students to answer questions in class,she can quickly tell from their facial expressions whether they are happy to participate.Professor McGuire's perceptual skill best illustrates

Steven has an intellectual disability and never learned how to speak,read,or write.Which area of independent living is he having difficulties with?

Which of the following is an example of fixation?

Our tendency to judge the likelihood of an event on the basis of how readily we can remember instances of its occurrence is called

Convergent thinking is to academic aptitude as divergent thinking is to

The concept of emotional intelligence is most likely to be criticized for

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

Contemporary psychologists are most likely to criticize Whorf's linguistic determinism hypothesis for

A stroke may impair the ability to speak distinctly without harming the ability to read because different language functions depend on different

Mr.Smith,a business manager,is often overly confident of his own hiring ability because he is more likely to monitor the successes of people he has hired than the achievements of those he has rejected.This illustrates that overconfidence may be facilitated by

John has locked his keys in his car.He has done this before and knows exactly what to do.He is approaching this problem with