intelligence

Question 1

what is the ability to learn, remember, and use information to adapt and solve problems

Answer 1

intelligence

Question 2

what was the first intelligence test

Answer 2

binet and Simon

Question 3

who believed intelligence is one thing, which he called general intelligence or g

Answer 3

spearman

Question 4

performance of a test is a combination of what

Answer 4

g and s (specialized intelligence and skills for that task)

Question 5

what is stored language, knowledge and memories which can be used to solve problems called

Answer 5

crystallized intelligence

Question 6

what is the ability to reason and think quickly called

Answer 6

fluid intelligence

Question 7

intelligence is organized into hierarchal categories from what to what

Answer 7

from most basic abilities to general intelligence/G

Question 8

in sternbergs triarchic theory, what is the ability to answer problems with a single right answer

Answer 8

analytic intelligence

Question 9

in stern bergs triarchic theory, what is the ability to adapt to new situations and create new ideas called

Answer 9

creative intelligence

Question 10

in stern bergs triarchic theory, what is common sense/ streets smarts called

Answer 10

practical intelligence

Question 11

what is the Flynn effect

Answer 11

when people today take older versions of IQ tests, average scores are above 100

Question 12

what is the standford-binet intelligence scale

Answer 12

gives a single score
fluids reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning and working memory

Question 13

WISC and WAIS

Answer 13

more commonly used
gives scores on sub scales
verbal IQ: verbal comprehension and working memory
Performance IQ: perceptual organization and processing speed

Question 14

tests are normed to have a mean of ____ and a standard deviation of ___

Answer 14

100 and 15

Question 15

what do more intelligent people have

Answer 15

larger, denser brains with thicker cortex
less brain activity on a particular task
faster processing speeds

Question 16

what is the heretibilaty of IQ

Answer 16

.40 and 0.80

Question 17

t or f identical twins have highly correlated IQs

Answer 17

true

Question 18

what are some environmental influences on intelligence

Answer 18

early childhood environment
nutrition
enrichment
exposire to toxins
education

Question 19

what is bias in IQ tests

Answer 19

intelligence tests require specific knowledge
experience with multiple choice tasks

Question 20

what is language

Answer 20

system for communicating with others using signals that are combined according to rules of grammar that covey meaning

Question 21

what is grammar

Answer 21

set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages

Question 22

how does language establish common ground

Answer 22

knowledge that the speaker and listener share and think or assume they share

Question 23

how does language affect audience deisign

Answer 23

we tailor our speech to those around us, based on common ground

Question 24

what are the different conversations coordinated between people

Answer 24

lexicon- tend to use similar words/terms as the people around us
syntax - tend to use similar word order and sentence structure as the people around us
rates of speech - we match our speed to that of other people in the conversation

Question 25

how does language establish groups

Answer 25

establishes and enlarges in-group and differentiates from outgroup

Question 26

what is linguistic intergroup bias

Answer 26

in-group members: use adjectives to describe positive actions and verbs to describe negative actions
outgroup members- use verbs to describe positive actions and adjectives to describe negative actions

Question 27

what properties does the human language have

Answer 27

uses symbols to convey meaning
generavity- symbols can be combined in infinite ways to convey novel meanings
displacement- can refer to things that are not present

Question 28

what is involved in the structure of language

Answer 28

phonemes
morphemes
syntactic rules

Question 29

what does phonemes do

Answer 29

smallest units of sound that are recognizable as speech

Question 30

what are the phonological rules

Answer 30

language rules that indicate how phonemes can be combined. differ from language to language

Question 31

what does morphemes do

Answer 31

smallest meaningful units of language, made up of phonemes

Question 32

what are content morphemes

Answer 32

things and events

Question 33

what are function morphemes

Answer 33

grammatical functions

Question 34

what are the morphological rules

Answer 34

language rules that indicate how morphemes can be combined to form words

Question 35

what are syntactic rules

Answer 35

language rules that indicate how words can be combined to form sentences and phrases

Question 36

what is responsible for production of coherent speech. Damage results in garbled, ungrammatical speech

Answer 36

the brocas area in the brain

Question 37

what is responsible for comprehension of speech. Damage results in difficulty understanding others speech and in producing meaningful speech

Answer 37

the Wernicke’s area

Question 38

what is linguistic relativity hypothesis (sapir-whorf hypothesis)

Answer 38

language determines what we are able to think about

Question 39

t or f language influences what we think and the decisions we make but it is not deterministic

Answer 39

true