Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

Explain how language can contribute to gender stereotyping.

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

IQ scores are unaffected by levels of environmental stimulation during childhood.

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

In some cases, the solution to a problem may be as simple as retrieving information from memory.

Which of the following groups of children are most likely to have the most similar IQ scores?

Most concepts that people use in thinking ________.

The particular words and phrases that make up a sentence are its ________ structure.

The Seguin Form Board is an example of a(n) ________.

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 ________.

Overall, research on gender differences in mental abilities indicates that, on average, ________.

Define performance tests and culture-fair tests. Discuss why such tests are needed, where they are useful, and what advantages and disadvantages they provide.

A seemingly arbitrary flash "out of the blue," where the solution to a problem suddenly becomes apparent to you, but you do not consciously know how you "figured it out," is called ________.

Summarize research findings on language and cognition in animals.

Terman introduced the concept of ________.

Using the criteria of meaningfulness, displacement, and productivity, ________.

By themselves, phonemes are ________.

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

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