Chapter 9 – PSYC – Flashcards

Which of the following best illustrates productive language?

An effort to "consider the opposite" would be most likely to inhibit _________.

Those who learn sign language as teens never become as fluent as children exposed to sign language from birth. This best illustrates the importance of _________ for mastering language.

The part of the left temporal lobe that is involved in understanding language is known as ________.

When her teacher mentioned the arms race, Krista understood that the word 'arms'referred to weapons and not to body parts. Krista's correct interpretation best illustrates the importance of _______.

__________ are simple thinking strategies for solving problems quickly and efficiently.

A best example of the category of objects, events, ideas, and people is called a _________.

A six-year-old who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average eight-year-old was said to have an IQ of ______.

A concept is a ____________________.

On which of the following tasks are men most likely to outperform women?

If our capacity to form concepts depends on our verbal memory, this would best illustrate __________.

The French government commissioned Alfred Binet to develop an intelligence test that would ___________.

The fact that young children generate all sorts of sentences they have never heard before suggests that __________.

Two year old Dirk's sentences 'dad come', 'mom laugh' and 'truck gone' are examples of __________

Chimpanzees are capable of learning to do __________

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

Binet used the term mental age to refer to _______________.

Students are most likely to develop a growth mindset that results in a focus on Learning when they believe that intelligence is _______________.

Students were asked to figure out the rule used to devise the three number sequence 2-4-6. After generating sets of three numbers to learn whether their sets met the rule, they typically convince themselves of the wrong rule. Their errors best illustrates the impact of ____________.

Introductory psychology students were more likely to achieve a good midterm exam grade if prior to the exam they repeatedly practice visual imagery that involved __________.

Brocas area is typically located in the left _______ lobe

When a person's test performance can be compared with that of representative and pretested sample of people, the test is said to be _____________.

Spearman referred to the general capacity that may underline all of a person specific mental abilities at as _________.

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

Creativity is the ability to ________________.

Robert Sternberg distinguished among analytical, creative, and ____________ intelligence

Left hemisphere damage to Wernickle's area is most likely to contribute to ________.

There are many genes, each of which account for much less than 1% of intelligence variations. This suggests that intelligence is ________________.

Who argued for a classification of eight independent intelligences which include musical spatial and kinesthetic aptitudes?

An effort to consider the opposite would be most likely to inhibit ____________.

Intelligence tests were initially designed by Alfred Bennett and Theodore Simon to assess _________.

The fact that all human languages have nouns, verbs, and adjectives lead Noam Chomsky to refer to __________________.

Students are asked to figure out the rule used to devise the three number sequence 2-4-6. After generating sets of three numbers to learn whether their sets met the rule, they too could convince themselves of a wrong wrong. There air is best illustrates the impact of _____________.

Cognitive Psychologists are most directly concerned with the study _________.

And testing thousands of different materials for use as they bother filaments. Thomas Edison associated a problem-solving approach _____________.

Research suggests that during early and middle adulthood _________________.

The part of the left temporal lobe that is involved in understanding language is known as ___________.

A system of rules for driving meanings from sounds and ordering words into sentences is called _________.

A mansion-laden images of unusual but vivid cases of abductive children may lead to many parents to experience exaggerated fears of letting their children walk to school. The executive year is best or street the impact of ______________.

Phonemes are __________________________.

The intelligent scores of adopted children are least likely to be positively correlated with the scores of their adopted siblings during ___________.

People who make outstanding creative contributions to the arts or science is there most likely to ____________.

With increasing age, identical twins and intelligence test scores become _____ positively correlated. With increasing age, adoptive sibling scores become _____ positively correlated.

Emotional intelligence as a specific aspect of ____________.