Psych chapter 7

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

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

Language Acquisition device

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

Negative Instance

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

Representativeness heuristic

According to the representativeness heuristic, people make judgments about events according to:

The populations of events that they appear to depict

What is an example of a category mammal

dog

Studies generally suggest that heritability of intelligence is less than 20%. True or false?

False -- it really lies between 40-60%

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

Anna points to an object and tells her two-year-old son what it is. He then points and repeats what Anna said. In the context of the social-cognitive perspective, Anna serves as a(n) _________ for her child to acquire language skills.

Model

__________ is the quality of language in which words are used as symbols for objects, events, or ideas.

Semanticity

__________ is the ability to generate novel and useful solutions to problems.

creativity

True or false-- Unlike babbling, crying and cooing are inborn and prelinguistic.

false

List a true fact about telegraphic speech

it is brief but grammatically correct

In the context of the nativist approach to language development, the ________ prepares the nervous system to learn grammar.

language acquisition device

Daniel, a six-year-old boy, takes an intelligence test. The results of the test show that he is functioning intellectually like the average eight-year-old. In this scenario, Daniel has a(n) __________ of eight.

mental age

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

overregularization

Patricia, a three-year-old girl, is having dinner. She looks at her father and says, "I eated food." In this scenario, Patricia is exhibiting _________.

overregularization

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

primary mental abilities

Children's __________ become refined after they are shown positive and negative instances and given explanations.

prototypes

The influence of wording, or the context in which information is presented, on decision making is known as _________.

the framing effect

Concepts can represent visions of things that never were measured

true

According to Robert Sternberg, intelligence can be divided into three major parts:

Analytical, creative, and practical

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

Displacement

True or false -- True language is distinguished from the communication systems of lower animals by properties such as semanticity, infinite creativity, and linguistic relativity.

False

__________ are rules of thumb that help us simplify and solve problems.

Heuristics

_________ is defined by the ability to cope with novel situations and generate many possible solutions to problems.

Creative Intelligence

Heuristics are often based on strategies that worked in the past

true