Vocad
What is score on a test designed to measure intelligence called?
intelligence quotient(IQ)
Going through every numder from 1-100 to find what time 5 euqal 75
trial and error
Sapir and Whorf proposed this controversial idea: that your language determines how you think, like how Mandarin speakers use 'up' and 'down' to describe time.
linguistic determinism
You're convinced your professor hates you, so you only notice when they're rude and ignore all the pleasant interactions—you're experiencing this bias.
confirmation bias
On a small fishing island, the best angler and boat repairer would be considered intelligent—showing that this varies across different groups.
culture
What is mental shortcut that saves time when solving a problem called?
heuristic
Using manual to bulid an Ikea Chair
algorithm
According to the passage, babies can tell the difference between sounds from ALL human languages at birth, but by this age they've lost that superpower
1 year old
When Apollo 13 astronauts were being poisoned by carbon dioxide, NASA engineers had to overcome this mental barrier to turn plastic bags and tape into an air filter.
functional fixedness
If you're camping and forgot the coffee pot but figure out how to brew coffee with a sock and hot water, you're high in this type of Sternberg's intelligence.
creative intelligence
What is a set of rules that are used to convey meaning through the use of a lexicon called?
Grammar
Kids Saying mouse instead of mice
overregularization
This researcher criticized Skinner's behaviorist approach and argued that language acquisition mechanisms are biologically determined.
Noam Chomsky
In Duncker's classic study, participants had to attach a candle to the wall using matches, thumbtacks, and this container
a box
According to the passage, a child who can analyze the historical context of a classic novel and compare characters' motives is demonstrating this component of Sternberg's theory.
analytical intelligence
What is a heuristic in which you begin to solve a problem by focusing on the end result called?
working backwards
Understand and not juged people when they don't eat pork because of their religian
cultural intelligence
Children typically enter this stage after the first few months of life, producing single syllables repeated over and over.
babbling stage
You keep trying to exit through the same locked door even though three other doors are wide open. You're stuck because past success with that door created this problem-solving barrier.
mental set
The passage explains that this type of intelligence helps you find solutions that work in everyday life by applying knowledge from your experiences—it's sometimes compared to 'street smarts' and may not correlate with high IQ scores
practical intelligence
What is an ability to produce new products, ideas, or inventing a new, novel solution to a problem called?
creative intelligence
Don't make joke about something because read the room and understand that there are an eliphan in a room.
emotional intelligence
The tragic case of this 13-year-old girl, found in 1970, showed she could build vocabulary but never mastered grammar—suggesting she missed this crucial window
critical period(Genie)
“If at first you don’t succeed,...."
try, try again
Dr. Tom Steitz won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry but said his creativity benefited from this—he didn't work in one of these, but constantly talked with colleagues.
vacuum (isolation)