Communication
The text defines cognition as?
Mental activity associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information
Which of the following is an example of the use of heuristics?
playing chess using a defensive strategy that has often been successful for you
Confirmation bias refers to the tendency to
look for information that is consistent with your beliefs
Tests of ______ measure what an individual can do now, whereas tests of _____ predict what an individual will be able to do later.
achievement; aptitude
Current estimates are that ____ percent of the total variation among intelligence scores can be attributed to genetic factors.
50
Which of the following is NOT true of babbling?
It is the same in all cultures
A 6-year-old child has a mental age of 9. Using the original formula, the child’s IQ would be.
150
Researchers who are convinced that animals can think point evidence that
All of these are true
Current intelligence tests compute an individual's intelligence score as ___.
The amount by which the test-taker's performance deviates from the average performance of others the same age.
The existence of ____ reinforces the generally accepted notion that intelligence is a multidimensional quality.
Savant Syndrome
Which of the following best describes Chomsky’s view of language development?
humans have a biological predisposition to acquire language
Which of the following is NOT a requirement of a good test?
fixation
One reason psychologists give for their belief that racial gaps in test scores are environmental is that
race is primarily a social category, not a neatly defined biological category
The formula for the intelligence quotient was devised by __.
William Stern
Assume that congress is considering revising its approach to welfare and so isi hearing a range of testimony. A member of congress who uses the availability heuristic would be most likely to …?
base his or her idea on the most memorable testimony given, even though many of the statistics presented run counter to this testimony
Which of the following has been argued by critics of ape language research?
all points have been argued
First-time parents Greta and Brad want to give their baby´s intellectual abilities a jump start by providing a super-enriched learning environment. Experts would suggest that the new parents should...
Chill brothas, there no surefire environmental recipe for giving a child a superior intellect
Standardization refers to the process of
defining meaningful scores relative to a representative pretested group
The test created by Alfred Binet was designed specifically to ___.
Predict school performance in children
Which of the following is NOT true regarding intelligence between men and females
in science and math achievement, males always surpass females
Deaf Children who are NOT exposed to sign language until they are teenagers...
will never be as good as those who learned to sign at a younger age
The concept of a g factor implies that intelligence
Is a single overall ability
Reported racial gaps in average intelligence scores are most likely due to
environmental factors
The bell-shaped pattern of intelligence scores in the general population is called a ____.
Normal Distribution
Researchers taught the chimpanzee Washoe to communicate by using…?
sign language