Exam 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

This theory represents a compromise between theories of multiple intelligences and the theory of general intelligence.

According to Horn and Cattell, crystalized intelligence is a largely innate ability characterized by analytic and abstract reasoning.

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of creativity as defined by psychologists?

When making a decision, most people take base rate information into account when they make judgments of the likelihood of some event.

In linguistics, this term refers to the fact that any sentence can be extended indefinitely by embedding clauses or phrases within or following it.

Dr. Plant uses laboratory methods to study thinking, learning and memory, language, and intelligence. Thus, Dr. Plant focuses his study on

Which of the following concepts most likely has fuzzy boundaries?

Michael Simmons is 5′ 7″ tall, quite slim and not particularly muscular. He likes to read mid-19th-century British poetry and diaries of the authors of literature classics like Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. This heuristic will lead you to believe that Michael is more likely to be an Ivy League literature professor than a truck driver.

Which of the following statements is most consistent with Fodor's computational theory of mind?

Most researchers believe that Systems 1 and 2 are supported by activity in the frontal lobe of the cortex.

Thought can be described as the active process of mentally manipulating information, and is comprised of two primary components:

The view that the specific grammar of a language determines the way in which native speakers construct their realities is called the

According to Noam Chomsky, what is most puzzling about the ease with which children acquire language?

According to Noam Chomsky and other linguists, humans inherit partly specialized neural circuitry ("hard wiring") in the brain and cognitive structures of the mind designed to acquire language, called the

In Carrol's three-stratum theory of intelligence, general intelligence is equivalent to

According to the ___________________ hypothesis, language is one of many factors affecting the way people construe reality.

Neuroscientists have shown that brain wave activity and the sites of brain activation differ in research participants as they solve problems with insight as compared with non-insight strategies.

Humans are relatively unique because we are able to use language to converse about things that do not exist, are abstract, or have yet to occur. This is called

When research subjects engage in tasks that require the construction of mental images, they utilize areas of the occipital cortex normally associated with vision.

This is the technical term for "street smarts," or the ability to come up with efficient solutions to the problems of everyday life, at home or on the job.