PSY Chapter 7 quiz

What impact did Genie's early isolation have on her ability to acquire language? She never developed a(an) ________.

mastery of the grammatical aspects of language

Knowing what a dinosaur is because you looked through a book with pictures of dinosaurs and watched the film Jurassic Park is an example of a natural concept that was developed through ________ experience.

Indirect

Which of the following is key to generating a bell curve?

sample size

Mikel can look at an engineering plan and quickly build a scale model. This exemplifies ________ intelligence.

spatial

Raymond Cattell was a psychologist who ________.

divided intelligence into two components

________intelligence is marked by inventing or imagining a solution to a problem or situation.

creative

Navigating your way home through an unfamiliar route due to road construction would draw upon your ________ intelligence.

fluid

Schemata are a(an) ________.

method of organizing information that allows the brain to work more efficiently

What is the Flynn effect?

observation that each generation has a significantly higher IQ than the previous generation

An anchoring bias occurs when you focus on ________.

one piece of information versus all of the information