Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

All animals communicate.

The current version of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale measures ________ kinds of mental abilities.

Thirty years after Skeels initially began his study, he found that ________.

A strategy in which the search for a solution starts at the goal and works toward the givens is called ________.

Images are mental categories for classifying specific people, things, or events.

In two studies comparing American and Asian students in math performance, one conducted in the 1980s and the other conducted in the 1990s, ________.

In recent years, IQ scores in the population as a whole have been declining.

In a recent study that required men and women to respond to gender-neutral and gender- specific pronouns, ________ responded more quickly to stimuli that contained traditional gender stereotypes than to stimuli that contained nontraditional stereotypes.

Which of the following groups of people is the Stanford-Binet least suited for?

The Christensen-Guilford Test asks subjects to ________.

The tendency of individuals who believe that AIDS is something that happens to "other people," such as homosexual men to remember articles about rates of infection among homosexual men more than articles about AIDS cases among people like themselves is an example of the ________.

Each of the following is a criticism of the linguistic relativity hypothesis except ________.

A person with average intelligence should get an IQ score of about 100 on the Stanford-Binet test.

A decision-making model in which the decision is made by comparatively weighing several factors is a compensatory model.

Carley has a Stanford-Binet IQ score of 25 and deficits in adaptive behavior. She is likely to be labeled ________ retarded.

Researchers who taught a gorilla named Koko to use sign language found that by age 5, she had a vocabulary of about ________ words.

A disorder in which the liver fails to produce a certain enzyme necessary for early brain development is ________.

Numerous studies indicate that animals ________.

A general term referring to the ability or abilities involved in learning and adaptive behavior is ________.

Heuristics are problem-solving methods that guarantee a solution if they are appropriate for the problem and are properly carried out.