Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

A problem-solving strategy in which an individual or a group produces numerous ideas and evaluates them only after all ideas have been collected is called ________.

The largest program designed to improve educationally disadvantaged children's chances of school achievement is the ________.

Trial and error is a more effective problem-solving technique than using heuristics.

The language rules that determine how sounds and words can be combined and used to communicate meaning within a language are collectively known as ________.

The originator of the linguistic relativity hypothesis is ________.

Avery, age 28, has little formal education but would like to go to college. Before he makes a decision on attempting college, he would like to find out what his intellectual ability is. The best test to help him do this is the ________.

Milton has a Stanford-Binet IQ score of 50 and deficits in adaptive behavior. He is likely to be labeled ________ retarded.

Most concepts that people use in thinking ________.

The tendency to view outcomes as inevitable and predictable after we already know the outcome is known as ________.

A problem-solving strategy based on successive elimination of incorrect solutions until the correct one is found is called ________.

A French automobile company once marketed a car with an unusual clutch mechanism in the United States. To disengage the gears prior to shifting, the driver had to depress the accelerator all the way to the floor. American drivers of this car never mastered this procedure and after numerous accidents and lawsuits the company stopped selling the car here. The difficulty with shifting this car was due to ________.

Terman introduced the concept of ________.

Critics of IQ tests claim that they correlate well with academic performance because ________.

A condition of significantly subaverage intelligence combined with deficiencies in adaptive behavior is called ________.

Creative people are ________ than less creative people with equivalent IQ scores.

According to Gardner, people who are extraordinarily talented at understanding and communicating with others have strong ________ intelligence.

The sounds of "t," "th," and "k" are ________.

Some researchers have found that malnutrition during infancy can lower IQ scores by an average of ________ points.

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

Jane has severe motor coordination deficits, and problems in performing daily tasks needed to function independently. Which of the following is also necessary to classify her as mentally retarded?