Exam 6: Language, Thinking, and Intelligence: What Humans Do Best

A person is generally considered to be mentally retarded if they have an IQ score of ________ or less.

If Chris is a creative person, is he necessarily also mentally unstable?

The term ________ refers to the most intermediate level of specificity that is likely to be applied to an object.

According to Howard Gardner, the ability to reason well about spatial relations defines logical-mathematical intelligence.

Through studying brain damaged patients, what did Gardner conclude about intelligence and why?

Imagine this situation. You give yourself an ice cream cone when you make an A on a test. You are having an ice cream cone, therefore, you made an A on a test. This illustrates ________.

What's the basic difference between someone who is "gifted" versus a "prodigy"?

You ask a student to describe the path to his dorm room. The most likely way in which he will do this is to _________.

The correct formula for determining IQ, as developed by William Stern, is ____________.

Research on the genetic effects on intelligence has found that ________.

________ proposed the theory of multiple intelligences.

An ostrich and a robin differ in how representative they are of the category birds. The robin has more ________.

What systematic problem-solving method guarantees a solution, provided that one exists?

In sharp contrast to differences in IQ, differences in creativity are ________.

The fact that microenvironments influence intelligence suggests that ________.

The smallest unit of meaning in a language is a morpheme.