What Is Language?
Nature/Nurture in Language Development
Intelligence Theories
Measurement of Intelligence
Nature/Nurture in Intelligence
100
These three things are needed in order for true language to occur.
What is semanticity, infinite creativity, and displacement?
100
These theorists see language as developing due to imitation and reinforcement.
Who are learning (or nurture) theorists?
100
He suggested that intelligence has an underlying factor called "g" for general intelligence.
Who is Spearman?
100
This intelligence scale was created in France in 1905 and yielded a score called a mental age (MA).
What is the Binet-Simon?
100
IQ scores are more alike for these kinds of twins than are scores for any other pairs.
What are identical twins or MZ twins?
200
This "hypothesis" states that speakers of different languages conceptualize the world in different ways.
What is linguistic-relativity hypothesis?
200
This "device" means "the inborn tendency to acquire language or grammar".
What is language acquisition device (LAD)?
200
He proposed that intelligence is comprised of many different kinds of intelligences (theory of multiple intelligences).
Who is Gardner?
200
These inteligence scales are made up of verbal and performance tasks.
What are the Wechsler Scales?
200
In adoptee studies, there is a stronger relationship between the IQ scores of adopted children and their ____ parents.
What is biological?
300
Toward the end of the 2nd year, children begin to speak in these two-word sentences
What is telegraphic speech?
300
These theorists believe that language development is innate or inborn.
Who are nativist (or nature) theorists?
300
This theory is made up of analytical, creative, and practical intelligence
What is the triarchic theory?
300
This scale, formerly the Binet-Simon, was adapted for use with children in the U.S.; it yields an intelligence quotient (IQ)
What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (SBIS)?
300
Studies show that the heritability of intelligence is generally between ____ and ____%
What is 40 and 60%?
400
The fact that sounds or signs of a language have meaning
What is semanticity?
400
This theory states that language development is due to the interaction of environment (nurture) and biology (nature).
What is psycholinguistic theory?
400
These are 4 of the 9 intelligences proposed by Gardner (you need to name any 4).
What is language, logical-mathematical, naturalist, spatial, body-kinesthetic, musical, intrapersonal, interpersonal, existential
400
This is the formula for determining IQ.
What is IQ= MA/CA X 100?
400
Bonus question: acronyms, jingles, and visual imagery would be examples of this term.
What are mnemonic devices?
500
This means the ability to communicate information about events and objects in another time or place.
What is displacement?
500
He proposed the language acquisition device (LAD)
Who is Chomsky?
500
He is the creator of the triarchic theory of intelligence
Who is Sternberg?
500
Two children who answer the same amount of questions right on an intelligence test, yet have different IQ scores, must be different ___.
What is ages?
500
Overall, research shows that intellectual functioning appears to reflect the interaction of ___ and ___ factors.
What are genetic (nature) and environmental (nurture) factors?
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