Exam 7: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

Lilly, a young girl, was isolated and severely abused during her childhood days.Because her parents never communicated with her in words, Lilly lacked exposure to language during her early childhood years.Although she was able to make some language advances while in extensive rehabilitation, Lilly, as an adult, still speaks in short, mangled twoor three-word sentences.This scenario suggests that language development

_____ uses established rules to draw conclusions, whereas in _____, such rules are not established, and we may not know the consequences of evaluating and choosing alternatives.

Maria is extremely active in politics.She has strong conservative beliefs about what is correct and what is not.Each day when she reads the newspaper, she pays close attention to the editorial section in particular.According to the confirmation bias, what will she do when she reads them?

Which of the following describes the trait of a critical thinker?

The fact that we hear about airplane crashes on the news more often than we hear about automobile crashes may lead us to believe that we are more likely to die in a plane than a car.This is an example of a(n)

A child with a mental age of 9 and a chronological age of 12 has an IQ of

Which of the following is true of individuals who think creatively?

If one were to translate "white house" to Spanish from English, it would be "casa blanca," or "house white." This demonstrates a difference in _____ between the two languages.

_____ is a language's sound system.

According to Benjamin Whorf, language determines our