Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

The process of moving continuously closer to a final goal without ever digressing or going backward is ________.

Tests designed to measure intellectual abilities by eliminating the use of words are called performance tests.

Researchers have found that ________ influenced by culture.

Rules of thumb that do not guarantee a solution but may help bring one within reach are called ________.

The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that ________.

Language is a uniquely human ability.

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

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

Images are a mental representation of a sensory experience.

We must form a new concept for every new experience.

Discuss IQ tests in terms of their uses, how successful they are, and current criticisms of them.

Non-human animals communicate primarily through ________.

Margo can't close the window in her office, and a strong wind has come up. She complains to John that her papers are blowing around and she can't find a paperweight. John takes the empty heavy coffee mug from her bookshelf and puts it on top of her papers to anchor them. Margo has been suffering from ________.

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

Summarize the research findings on sex differences in mental abilities.

People cannot think about things for which they have no words in their language.

The basic sound units of any language are called ________.

Semantics describes how we assign meaning to the morphemes we use.

There is a rule in the English language that adjectives come before nouns. This rule is an example of ________.

Jack had never met a professor before he went to college. However, from what he had heard, he developed a mental image of all professors being male, absent-minded, middle-aged, wearing glasses and tweed sports jackets, smoking a pipe, and speaking with a British accent. This mental image is best described as a(n) ________.