Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

Charles Spearman believed that ________.

A major difference between the Stanford-Binet test and the WAIS is that the ________.

Summarize research on giftedness and the criticisms of current techniques to measure giftedness.

Validity is a test's ability to measure what it has been designed to measure.

Creativity is the ability to ________.

In comparing Asian and American attitudes toward academic performance, ________ believe that studying hard, rather than innate ability, is most important.

Non-human animals communicate primarily through ________.

Which of the following is not an advantage of group tests over individual tests?

The process that used to be known as "mainstreaming," is now called ________.

If an IQ test correlates positively with school performance, it gains in ________.

John and Bill are both employed in an advertising agency, and both have IQ scores of about 130. John is involved in the assignment of staff to various accounts and the scheduling of production activities. Bill is a commercial artist who decides on visual formats and does the original sketches. Which of the following is most likely to be true?

In the Milwaukee Project, the experimental group of children whose mothers received special training and who themselves had access to an education center scored, on average, about ________ their mothers' average IQ scores.

Presenting an issue by emphasizing its negative aspects, in the hope of convincing people to vote against it, is an example of ________.

The IQs of identical twins reared apart are usually found to be ________.

Currently, ________ refers to superior IQ combined with demonstrated or potential ability in such areas as academic aptitude and creativity.

Prenatal malnutrition ________.

The system of rules that governs how we combine words to form meaningful phrases and sentences is called ________.

Each of the following is a characteristic of emotional intelligence except ________.

A uniquely human capability that may separate us from all other animals is ________.

Daniel Goleman has recently proposed the ________.