Chapter 7

Which is best characterizes Howard gardner's view of intelligence?

"There are multiple intelligences which are influenced by different areas in the brain."

Jane is a 10-year-old girl with a mental age (MA) of 12. Jane's intelligence quotient (IQ) calculates using Wilhelm Stern's formula is _________.

120

Chelsea sells used cars and she has noticed over the years that when you initially quote a high price for a car people tend to not have a drastically different counteroffer. This is an example of:

An anchoring and adjustment heuristic.

Which of the following statements is true of prelinguistic vocalizations?

Babies' babbling frequently combines consonants and vowels.

In relation to the question of what determines intelligence, most psychologists agree that:

Both heredity and environment are important in determining intelligence.

________ believed that general intelligence was responsible for overall performance on mental ability tests.

Charles Spearman

Which of the following statements is true of the nativist theory of language development?

Children bring neurological prewiring to language learning.

___________ is the quality of language that permits one to communicate information about objects and events in another time and place.

Displacement

In________, the problem solver associates freely to the elements of problem, allowing "leads" to run a nearly limitless course.

Divergent thinking

Ava, a four-year-old girl, combines words to form her own sentences. In this scenario, Ava is demonstrating ___________.

Infinite creativity

Pointing to a cat and saying. "This is not a dog" is a(n) _______ of the dog concept.

Negative instance

Max's three-year-old typically says things like, "I seed it" and "Mommy sitted down." These examples illustrate __________.

Overregularization

According to Louis Thurstone, __________ are the eight specific factors that make up intelligence.

Primary mental abilities

The _______ assumes that the more similar something is to our expectations, the more likely the entity belongs to that category.

Representativeness heuristic

Identify a true statement about environmental influences on intelligence.

Studies support the view that children's early environment is liked to academic achievement.

Dave could not remember the last digit of his friend's cell phone number, so he kept trying different digits until he found the right one. In this scenario, which of the following methods did Dave use?

The systematic random search algorithm.

In the context of theories of intelligence, which of the following statements is true of creative people?

They appreciate art and music.

When a child utters the word "mama," it may signify meanings as varied as "There goes Mama,""Come here Mama," and "You are my Mama." Such single words used by children to express complex meanings are known as _________.

Holophrases

In Gestalt psychology, ________ is a sudden perception of relationships among elements of the mentally represented elements of a problem that permits its solution.

Insight

What is the name of the concept that infants are born with the innate ability to learn language?

Language Acquisition Device