Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Tendency of people to search for information that supports their own preconceptions.

Smallest units of language that carry meaning.

An impairment of language due to brain damage.

Statistical approach used to analyze factors from an intelligence test.

Babies are in the "one word stage" of language at age

A 'normal curve' in psychology that explains psychological attributes looks like a(n)

Lewis Terman's widely used intelligence test - a revision of Binet.

A mental grouping of similar objects, events, or people

Condition where one has a low intelligence score, but one exceptional ability.

The most widely used intelligence test.

Tendency to judge likelihood of things in terms of how well they match particular prototypes

A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.

The extent to which a test produces consistent results.

All the mental activities such as thinking, knowing, and remembering.

Specialized region of frontal lobe that PRODUCES speech.

Located in the temporal lobe, involved in comprehending language.

The set of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others.

French researcher of intelligence.

Spearman's concept, (g), or the factor that underlies all mental abilities.

Degree to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure.

Psychologist who hypothesized an 'emotional intelligence' - the ability to percieve emotions

'Economic' speech used by 2 year olds that consists of mostly nouns and verbs.

These measure a person's current knowledge.

The tendency to continue applying a problem-solving strategy even when it's no longer helpful.