Language
A communication system that uses rules to organize words to transmit information is called a _______ .
Language
Define cognition.
Thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating.
Lisa excels at trigonometry and calculus. This is considered _________ intelligence.
Logical-mathematical
Being creative involves _____ .
Flexibility and originality
After the first few months, babies enter a stage when they produce single syllables, over and over. This is called ______ .
Babbling.
Someone who mixes up letters in words or sentences probably has the learning disability called ____ .
What is confirmation bias?
Focusing on what you already believe.
Someone who plays an instrument and can easily learn new songs probably has high ____ intelligence.
Musical
One way to measure focus and determination and resilience is by using the ____ Test.
Grit
Someone who learns two languages before the age of 2 is known as _____ .
Crib bilingual.
The basic sound unit of a language is called a ____ .
Phoneme
What is it called when you try to solve a problem the way you have in the past? Having a _______ .
Mental set
Children who live in poverty tend to score lower on IQ tests because they ________ .
Experience more overwhelming daily stress, which diminishes brain function.
According to Howard Gardner, there are how many different types of intelligence?
8
At what age are children capable of using simple sentences?
18-24 months.
The vocabulary of a language is its _____ .
Lexicon
A mental construct of related concepts is known as a ______ .
Schema
The famous study of identical twins reared apart shows that there is a strong __________ .
Genetic component to intelligence.
What is the heritability of IQ? (And how do we know this?)
About 50%
From studying the IQs of identical twins.
To be considered 'gifted,' children must score in the top ___ % of the Stanford-Binet IQ test for children.
1 percent
The smallest unit of language that conveys meaning is called a __________ .
Morpheme
More Americans are killed by diabetes than by airplane crashes each year, but people tend to be more afraid of flying than of diabetes. This is an an example of the ______ .
Availability heuristic.
The average IQ score is about 100. In IQ testing, 15 points is considered one standard deviation. So, an IQ of 115 would be __________ .
One standard deviation above the mean
There are two key factors that determine whether an IQ test, or any measurement, is good. They are ______.
Reliability and validity.
Recent research shows that the more words parents use to speak to their babies, the ____ those babies.
Smarter