Psychology Chapter 7
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Joan is a ten year old with the mental age of twelve. according to stern, Joan's IQ is ____
creative intelligence
Mozart was a child prodigy. by the age of 12 he composed several music pieces. According to Sternberg's model of intelligence Mozart can be said to have demonstrated a high level of _____
displacement
Ryan is telling his grandchildren stories of his youth and college days. In the context of language, Ryan is demonstrating _____
naturalist intelligence
Susan has the ability to look at the moon and the stars at night and to develop insights into the laws that govern their behavior. In this context, Susan has _____
mental age
The _____ shows the intellectual level at which a child is functioning
heuristics
____ are rules of thumb that help us simplify and solve problems
analytical intelligence
____ enables us to solve problems and acquire new knowledge and it is the type of intelligence measured by standard intelligence tests
creativity
____ is the ability to generate novel and useful solutions to problems
displacement
____ is the capacity to communicate information about events and objects in another time or place
semancity
____ is the quality of language in which words are used as symbols for objects, events, or ideas
displacement
____ is the quality of language that permits one to communicate information about objects and events in another time and place
concept
_____ are mental categories used to group together objects, relations, events, abstractions, or qualities that have common properties
analogy
a ____ is a partial similarity among things that are different in other ways
mental set
a ____ is a tendency to respond to a new problem with the same approach that helped solve similar problems
psycholinguistic theory
according to ____ language acquisition involves the interaction of environmental influences
overregualtion
children between the ages of three and five incorrectly apply the rules of past tense and plural when they say "sitted" instead of "sat". This is known as _____
prototypes
children's _____ become refined after they are shown positive and negative instances and given examples
insight
in gestalt psychology a _____ is a sudden perception of relationships among elements of the mentally represented elements of a problem that permits its solution
language acquisition device
in psycholinguistic theory ______ neural "prewiring" that facilitates the child's learning of grammar
negative instance
pointing to a bird and saying "that is not a mammal" is a _____ of the mammal concept
nativist theory
the ____ of language development holds that the inborn factors - which make up children's nature - cause children to attend to and acquire language in certain ways
the linguistic-relativity hypothesis
the observation that infants display before they learn to speak offers little support to ____
infinite creativity
when a child combines words to form a sentence herself rather than imitate one she has heard before, she is demonstrating the _____ characteristic of language skills
holophrase
A _____ is a single word used by children to express complex meanings
model
Anna points to an object and tells her two year old what it is. the child then points and repeats label. according to social-cognitive perspective, Anna serves as a _____ for her child to acquire language skills
general intelligence
Christopher has good skills many areas of problem solving and reasoning ability. according to Spearman, Christopher's abilities are indicative of _____
mental age
Daniel is an eight year old boy. after taking a test, the Binet-Simon scale showed that he is functioning intellectually like an eight year old therefore Daniel has a ____ of eight.
divergent thinking
In ____ the problem solver associates freely to the elements of the problem, allowing "leads" to run a nearly limitless course