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Introduction To Psychology Chap 7-8 > Thinking, Language And Intelligence > Flashcards

Thinking, Language And Intelligence Flashcards

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The communication of information arranged according to the rules of grammar

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Language

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The quality of language in which words are use as symbols for objects events or ideas

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Semanticity

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The capacity to combine words into original sentences

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Infinite creativity

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The quality of language that permits one to communicate information about the subject and events in another time and place

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Displacement

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The view that language structures the way we view the world

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Linguistic relativity hypothesis

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crying is a child’s first use language

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False

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A single word use to express complex meaning

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Holophrase

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Young children say things like “daddy goed away” and “mommy sitted down” because they do’t understand the rule of grammars

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False

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The view that Language learning involves an interaction between environmental factors and an inborn tendency to acquire language

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Psycholinguistic theory

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In the psycholinguistic theory, neural “prewing” that facilitates the child’s learning of grammar

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Language acquisition device

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A general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, solve and comprehend

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Intelligence

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A spearman symbol for general intelligence, which he believed underlay more specific abilities

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g

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Spearman symbol for specific factors, or s factors, which he believed accounted for individual abilities

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S

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According to thurstone, the basic abilities that make up intelligence examples include word fluency and numerical ability

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Primary mental abilities

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He constructed the three prolonged or triarchic theory of intelligence that includes analytical, creative and practical

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Robert sternberg

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The abilities to solve problems, compare and contrast, judge, evaluate and criticize

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Analytical intelligence

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The abilities to invent, discover, suppose or theorize

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Creative intelligence

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The abilities to adapt to the demands of ones environment and apply knowledge in practical situations

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Practical intelligence

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It is true that street smarts are a sign of intelligence - at least according to the views of Greek philosopher Aristotle and psychologist Robert sternberg

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T

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The ability to generate novel and useful solutions to problems

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Creativity

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Thought process that narrows in on the single best solution to a problem

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Convergent thinking

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Thought process that attempts to generate multiple solutions to problems

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Divergent thinking

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Creative people are intelligent

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T

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The accumulated months of credit that a person earn on the Stanford Binet intelligence scale

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Mental age

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A ratio obtained by dividing a child’s score (or mental age)

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Intelligence quotient

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Two children’s can answer exactly the same items on an intelligence test correctly. Yet one child can obtain an above average in IQ, and the other can obtain below average

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T

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This scale highlights the strength and weakness of the children’s

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Wechsler scale

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Intelligence test measure many things other than intelligence

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T

29
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It was once widely believed that male were more intelligent than females because of their greater knowledge of world affairs and their skills in science and industry

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Gender differences

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It is the genetic influence to a person

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Nature

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It is the environmental influence to a person

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Nurture

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The degree to one which the variation from one person to another can be attributed to, or explained by genetic factors

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Heritability

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The _______ environment and styles of parenting also affect IQ scores

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Home

34
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The program with enriched environment that enhance the IQ of children’s

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Education

35
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He argued that our genetic codes could not possibly changed enough in half a century to account for this enormous differences

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John Flynn

Introduction To Psychology Chap 7-8 (2 decks)

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