Thinking, Language, and Intelligence Unit Review

Question 1

If Jane's intelligence quotient is 100, we know that she has a

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mental age of children who have the same chronological age

Question 2

Which of the following is one of Gardner's types of intelligence?

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music

Question 3

The term "g-factor", written about by Neisser, refers to

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general abilities

Question 4

The rules for ordering words in sentences are called

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syntax

Question 5

The inability to see new uses for familiar objects is termed

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functional fixedness

Question 6

In Binet's test of intelligence, items included at each age level were those which

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could be answered by an average child of that age

Question 7

IQ may be defined as

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MA/CA x 100

Question 8

______ is the study of the meaning of words and language

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Semantics

Question 9

The way a question is stated before problem-solving begins is know as

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framing

Question 10

The term "cognition" includes

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thinking, problem-solving, reasoning, and remembering.

Question 11

Mental representations used in thinking include

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concepts

Question 12

According to Chomsky, we are able to develop language because of an inborn universal

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language acquisition device

Question 13

The person responsible for the development and design of first useful test of intelligence

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Binet

Question 14

The correlation between IQ and creativity is

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very low

Question 15

Computer programs capable of doing things that require intelligence

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artificial intelligence

Question 16

Basic speech sounds are called

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phonemes

Question 17

Sandra is below normal intelligence but is able to tell you exact calendar days in 1957. She

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has savant syndrome

Question 18

A perceptual set that causes one to become hung up on a wrong solution or miss other options

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fixation

Question 19

Which of the following is an approach to measuring reliability?

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test-retest

Question 20

Which of the following is associated with creativity?

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divergent thinking

Question 21

"Anti" or "-ed" are examples of

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a morpheme

Question 22

Which of the following is another word for validity

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relevance

Question 23

_____ are the smallest meaningful units of speech

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Morphemes

Question 24

_____ intelligence tests asses a wide variety of mental abilities

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General

Question 25

Heuristics are problem-solving strategies which

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reduce the number of alternatives, but are prone to errors

Question 26

98 of 100 people respond "Golden Retriever" when asked to name best concept of a dog.

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This is an example of a prototype

Question 27

Thought that involves going from general principles to specific situations is called

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deductive reasoning

Question 28

The distribution of IQ scores

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is approximately a normal or bell-shaped curve

Question 29

Novel ideas that are useful, original, and show flexibility and fluency in thought is

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divergent thinking

Question 30

Howard Gardner has theorized all of the following types of intelligence EXCEPT

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creativity

Question 31

The fact that "Dog bites man" is very different from "Man bites dog" shows importance of

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syntax

Question 32

The solution to arithmetic problems requires

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convergent thinking

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