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This is high when an IQ test measures what it was designed to measure.
What is validity?
A rule of thumb used in solving problems or making decisions.
What is a heuristic?
Proposed that humans are equipped with an innate language acquisition device.
Who is Noam Chomskey?
This idea proposes a 'window' for human language development.
What is the Critical Period Hypothesis?
A child's mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100.
What is the Intelligence Quotient (IQ)?
Peace, patience, mercy, and love are examples of this.
What is an abstract concept?
Created the first useful intelligence test, aimed at predicting children's success in school
Who is Alfred Binet?
This theorist believed that language is acquired through behavioral principles of mimicking and reinforcement.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
According to Sternberg, this type of intelligence helps you solve problems encountered in everyday life.
What is practical intelligence?
Turning your computer off and then on again to correct an error is an example of this type of problem solving.
What is trial and error?
Proposes that humans have 8 independent intelligences.
Who is Gardner?
This is the idea that language determines or influences cognition.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
Increased schooling and more demanding curricula are proposed explanations for this 100+ year trend of higher IQ scores.
What is the Flynn effect?
Using a shoe to hammer a nail is an example of overcoming this.
What is functional fixedness?
He claimed genetic factors account for most individual differences in IQ.
Who is Arthur Jensen?
Damage to this area of the brain renders the individual able to understand language much better than they can produce it.
What is Broca's area?
This subtest was removed from the WAIS Intelligence test in recent years because it was deemed biased towards U.S.-based knowledge.
What is the Information subtest?
A triangle's area, a square, and a circle are examples of this.
What is an abstract concept?
Proposed the linguistic relativity hypothesis, stating that one's language determines the nature of one's thought.
Who is Benjamin Lee Whorf?
These two interconnected pieces are required for early language development.
What are a language acquisition device and language input?