Ch. 8 Thinking, language, intelligence

The area of the frontal lobe that if damaged leaves them unable to understand other's words

Race is a physical category with well-defined social boundaries

What do we NOT tend to fear?

Which is an ingredient of creativity?

Between two groups the difference is mainly

What is a benefit of intelligence testing?

Within each group the differences between individuals are mainly a relection of

What is an ingredient of success?

Children are more like their adopted parents than their biological parents in scores

test was given to a representative sample of people, future comparison

What is a requirement for diagnosing an intellectual ability?

Which is an intellectual ability that decreases with age?

In general boys are better than girls at

Measure what people have learned

There is no benefit to early exposure to language

Asian students outperform North American students due to increased intelligence

The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions

Historians and authors do their best work in their 40's and 50's because they have more

What can we do to use intuition to our benefit?

Cultures can effect whether males or females score higher on science and math exams

Females have a wider range of intelligence scores than males

Which is an intellectual ability that improves with age?

The portion of the variation among individuals that we can assign to genes

What we have learned and recorded in our brains but can't fully explain

Which is NOT one of Gardner's intelligences?

Insight gives us a burst of brain activity and sense of happy satisfaction

The way we present an issue can influence our decisions

All the mental abilities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

A methodical law, rule, or procedure that guarantees that you wil solve a particular problem

In general girls are better than boys at

Mathemeticians and scientists do their best work in their 20's and 30's because they have more

There is a window of opportunity for learning language

Intelligence is biologically fixed

Measure or predict what they are intended to measure

The ability to produce ideas that are both novel and valuable:

A mental image or best example of a category

Worry that your group doesn't do well on a certain type of test hurts your performance

What is NOT a benefit of having emotional intelligence?

Fraternal twins test scores are more alike than the scores of two other siblings.

Intelligence varies widely throughout the lifespan

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The area of the left frontal lobe that if damaged leaves the person struggling to speak

Which is NOT one of Gardner's intelligences?

The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and to use knowledge to adapt to new

Which is NOT one of Sternberg's intelligences?

Those who score high in one area on an intelligence test also tend to score high in other areas

Assess what people will be able to learn, predict future behavior

Which is NOT a way to boost creativity?

Gives consistent scores no matter who takes the test or when they take it:

Understanding what is said

Because we reason emotionally, we tend to undrfeel and overthink

Our tendency to seek evidence for our ideas more eagerly than we seek evidence against them

An inability to come to a fresh perspective

The tendency to overestimate our accuracy to be more confident than correct

A simple thinking strategy that allows you to make judgments and solve problems easily

Women can be intimidated when take math tests or thinking their playing chess with men

Judging the likelihood of an event based on its availability in memory

The ability to consider many different options and to think in different ways

Mental age/chronological age x 100

The level of performance typically associated with a certain chronological age

Our accumulated knowledge that increases as we age

Abiity to produce words

Which is an explanation for why high scoring individuals live longer healthier lives?

Our spoken, written, or signed words and the way we meaningfully combine them

What is NOT a benefit of learning more than one language in childhood?

Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly that peaks in the 20's and declines as we age

Imagining a physical experience does not activate the same neural networks as actual experience

There is a gene for intelligence

Ability +_________+motivation = __________

Which is an ingredient of creativity?

Our fast, automatic, unreasoned feelings and thoughts

Which is NOT a benefit of having emotional intelligence?

What is NOT an evidence of thinking in other animals?

Two generations differ by a greater margin than blacks and whites on intelligence tests

The know how involved in understanding social situations and managing ourselves

How is human language different from animal communication?

Which is NOT one of Gardner's intelligences?

Which is a standardized, reliable, and valid intelligence test?

A sudden realization of the solution to a problem

What is NOT true about savant syndrome?

where do most scores lie on a bell curve?

Our tendency to cling to our beliefs even when evidence proves us wrong

What is a drawback of intelligence testing?

Adoption of mistreated, neglected, or poverty stricken children increases intelligence scores