Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

Research indicates that the practice of using IQ scores to label students and track them in separate school programs ________.

Approximately 90 percent of all retardation is ________ retardation.

Americans are more likely than Asians to believe that studying hard, rather than innate ability, is crucial to successful academic performance.

About one person in ________ is afflicted with PKU.

The mirror test with animals has been used primarily to test for ________.

Robert is applying for a job as a legal secretary. In addition to testing his secretarial skills, the law firm is most likely to test his general intelligence by administering the ________.

Identify and briefly describe four types of creativity tests in terms of how they attempt to measure creativity. How successful have these tests been at predicting actual creative productivity in the "real world?"

When you wish to understand a sentence, you must start with listening to the speech sounds that make up the words and phrases, decipher the meaning of each of the words and phrases, and eventually interpret the idea conveyed by the sentence. This is sometimes called a(n) ________.

Profound retardation corresponds to a Stanford-Binet score within the range of ________.

The Stanford-Binet test is simply passed out to a roomful of students.

Mental categories for classifying specific objects, people, and experiences are known as ________.

The idea that patterns of thinking are determined by the specific language one speaks is called the linguistic fixedness hypothesis.

After his football team wins a close game on a very risky play that rarely worked, Greg says, "I KNEW that play would win the game for us." In reality, he wasn't at all sure it would work until after the play was completed. His thinking is an example of ________.

The Binet-Simon scale was originally developed to ________.

The environmentalists' position on intelligence is best summarized by saying that ________.

The decision-making process that involves making a decision on the basis of certain features that are similar to a stereotyped model is called ________.

Summarize the research on the effectiveness of intervention programs aimed at improving the academic performance of children.

The first intelligence test was used in Paris in ________.

Maureen is completing a chemistry project that must be written up using the metric system (i.e., milliliters), but her beaker is scaled in ounces. The best solution strategy for her problem involves a(n) ________.

An IQ score of below 68 is all that is necessary to be labeled as mentally retarded.