Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Syntax and semantics are two components of ___, which refers to the system of rules used to generate acceptable language.

The production of vowel/consonant combinations at 4 to 6 months is called _________.

A means-end analysis, working backward, and creating subgoals are all examples of _________.

The g factor originally proposed by Charles Spearman is best defined as _________.

This intelligence is the ability to think speedily and abstractly and to solve novel problems.

During the production stage of problem-solving, you should generate _________.

If a test is valid, then its scores will be useful in _________.

Children make errors like "mouses" and "goed" versus "mice" and "went" because they ________ the rules of grammar.

Regarding creativity, the word "fluency" means being able to ________.

Cattell proposed that there were two types of g: _________.

When learning a new concept, children are most likely to learn the ________ level first.

Problem-solving is the act of moving _________.

The word "blanket" has ________ phoneme(s)and ________ morpheme(s).

Intellectually gifted people score in the top ________ percent on a standard IQ test.

The word "animal" represents a(n)________ concept.

The final stage in problem-solving is called the ________ stage.

According to the language theory of Noam Chomsky, _________.

Human language differs from communication in nonhuman animals in that it is _________.

Which of the following is NOT part of the general process of cognition?

Shorter sentences that contain only the most necessary words, omitting those which can be left out, are called _________.