psy 10

The ability to use language is usually consistent with intelligence level with the exception of _____ syndrome.

Williams

A time management tool for carrying out a plan is _____.

a Gantt chart

Good decision making is ____.

a skill that can be taught

Shirley's home is full of piles of old newspapers and magazines, which she saves because she might find them useful some day. She also collects rags, old paper towels, plastic bags, and empty bottles and cans. Shirley likely has ____.

abnormally low activity in the anterior cingulate cortex

To search for animal precursors to human language capability, the most logical place to start is with _____.

apes

A disadvantage to the _____ approach to concept formation is that people can usually come up with exceptions.

common features

The ability to think logically using specific, learned knowledge is called ____ intelligence.

crystallized

Mental representations cannot be visual.

false

The recognition heuristic ____.

is used by advertisers to encourage sales of their products

Strong musical abilities in people with Williams syndrome, which results in a lower than normal IQ score, is an example of _____.

multiple intelligences

Our knowledge would be useless unless we imposed some type of _____ on all the bits we know.

organization

Intellectual disability is a condition diagnosed in individuals with deficits in intellectual functioning beginning in childhood and ____.

poor adaptive behaviors

American Sign Language is ____.

processed primarily by the left hemisphere of the brain, similar to other languages

The Flynn Effect (i.e., the finding that both fluid and crystallized test scores have improved across many parts of the world since 1930) is likely due to ____.

reductions in serious infectious diseases

Morphemes are combined into phrases and sentences according to ____.

rules of grammar

The availability heuristic is a rule of thumb in which ____.

the frequency of an event's occurrence is predicted by the ease with which the event is brought to mind

An analysis of more than 500 contemporary languages has demonstrated that the number of speech sounds in a language decreases systematically ____.

with the culture's distance from Africa along migration routes

Giftedness is an extreme of intelligence defined as having an IQ score of ____.

130 or above

Which event occurring around 100,000 years ago possibly marked the start of modern language as we know it?

A critical mutation in the FOXP-2 gene

A morpheme is ____.

A morpheme is ____.

What is a rule-of-thumb approach in which we choose between alternatives based on emotional or gut reactions to stimuli?

Affect heuristic

Which of the following is NOT part of the definition of intelligence?

An IQ of at least 75

Angela dreams of devoting her career to the reduction and eventual elimination of malaria. What does the text recommend as an approach to address a substantial, large-scale problem such as malaria?

Break the problem down into component parts with intermediate and long-term goals.

Which of the following reflects the current understanding of whether the two languages of bilingualism are represented in different parts of the brain?

Different languages overlap depending on the timing of learning and proficiency in each language.

Which of the following is true?

Exemplars provide a better way of thinking about the variability of a category than prototypes.