Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

Kerstin is 8 years old and has just immigrated from Sweden. She is placed in a third-grade class, but she does not do well. Her teacher sends her to the school psychologist for intelligence testing. Noting that Kerstin does not speak English very well, the psychologist chooses a culture-fair test and administers the ________.

The process ensuring that disabled students are more likely to socialize with nondisabled peers in school is called ________.

The phenomenon in which among the population as a whole, IQ scores have been steadily increasing over several decades is known as the ________.

The tendency to perceive and approach problems in certain ways is called ________.

Gardner and his associates are known for proposing the ________.

By age 5, speaking and hearing human children have a vocabulary of between ________ words.