Question 1

Persons who work as sales managers, therapists, and teachers may be high in which type of intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A)  interpersonal 
B)  intrapersonal 
C)  crystallized 
D)  linguistic

Question 2

If you guess that a slender young woman who is soft-spoken and athletic is a ballet dancer, rather than a CEO of a Fortune-500 company, then you used which of the following in your judgment of her?

Accepted Answer

A)  a mental set 
B)  confirmation bias 
C)  the availability heuristic 
D)  the representativeness heuristic

Question 3

Multi-word sentences that contain only the most necessary words and omit connecting words are called ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  telegraphic speech 
B)  simplistic speech 
C)  babbling 
D)  telescoped communication

Question 4

The "a" sound in the word "answer" is an example of a ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  morpheme 
B)  grammar 
C)  phoneme 
D)  pragmatic

Question 5

List and describe the different levels of severity with regard to intellectual disability, and note the proportions of each that would be seen among those who are afflicted with these challenges.

Accepted Answer

The answer of List and describe the different levels of...

Question 6

With each generation in society, the overall intelligence scores of the population seems to increase. This is called the ________ effect, and it may be due to a number of environmental factors.

Accepted Answer

The answer of With each generation in society, the overall...

Question 7

Which of the following is one of the index scores produced by the WAIS?

Accepted Answer

A)  verbal comprehension 
B)  perceptual acuity 
C)  long-term memory 
D)  physical strength

Question 8

A fixed thinking approach to problem solving that only sees solutions that have previously proven to be successful is called ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  mental rigidity 
B)  a mental set 
C)  functional rigidity 
D)  a functional set

Question 9

If a test has a high level of criterion-related validity, then its scores will be useful in ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  predicting how the test taker would perform on a different test of similar skills 
B)  establishing a standardization curve 
C)  determining a person's genetic capacity for the behavior that was tested 
D)  establishing specific cognitive traits

Question 10

Discuss the idea of Chomsky's language acquisition device and the nature/nurture debate surrounding it.

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

Ethnic group differences in IQ scores can be due to ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  familial characteristics and socioeconomic differences 
B)  environmental factors and cultural biases in IQ tests 
C)  cultural biases in IQ tests and familial characteristics 
D)  familial characteristics and environmental biases

Question 12

The fact that the word "compass" has multiple definitions refers to the idea of ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  syntax 
B)  semantics 
C)  morphemes 
D)  prefixes

Question 13

Working backwards is an example of a(n) ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  mnemonic device 
B)  algorithmic solution 
C)  heuristic 
D)  problem-solving set

Question 14

People with limited mental abilities who demonstrate exceptional ability in specific areas may be diagnosed with ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  savant syndrome 
B)  Asperger's syndrome 
C)  autistic syndrome 
D)  intellectual genius syndrome

Question 15

Imagine that you have just had a baby who will follow normal developmental milestones. Name your baby, and describe his or her language development from birth through age 5.

Accepted Answer

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Question 16

Persons who work as engineers, architects, and pilots may be high in which type of intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A)  fluid 
B)  linguistic 
C)  spatial 
D)  naturalistic

Question 17

Wernicke's area is responsible for ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  language comprehension 
B)  speech generation 
C)  movement 
D)  balance

Question 18

The term disidentify in the area of stereotype threat refers to the idea of ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  individuals belonging to a minority group no longer identifying with the group 
B)  individuals telling themselves that they do not care about their test scores 
C)  feelings of anxiety around their own group 
D)  reduced motivation to makes friends from different cultural backgrounds

Question 19

When Don gets stuck in traffic, he decides to take an alternative route to the mall. What aspect of creative thinking is this?

Accepted Answer

A)  flexibility 
B)  fluency 
C)  originality 
D)  problem-solving

Question 20

The idea of the language acquisition device supports the role of which perspective in language development?

Accepted Answer

A)  nativist 
B)  nurturist 
C)  social-cognitive 
D)  Gestalt

Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence