Psych Final ch. 7

When A child utters the word "mama," it may signify meaning 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

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

Children bring neurological prewiring to language learning.

Which best characterizes Howard Garner'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) calculated using Wilhelm Stern's formula is ________.

120

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 physiologists 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

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

Displacemnet

In _________, the problem solver associates freely to the elements of the problem, allowing "leads" to run a near 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

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

Language Acquisition Device

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

Primary mental abilities

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 the theories of intelligence, which of the following stamens is true of creative people?

They appreciate art and music.

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

insight

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

negative instance

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 drastically different counteroffer. This is an example of:

An archiving and adjustment heuristic

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

Representativeness heuristic

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

Overregularization

Identify a true statement abut environmental influences on intelligence:

Students support the view that children's early environment is linked to academic achievement