Thinking, Language, and Intelligence Intelligence Study Guide

Terms from Chapter 10

Cognition
Availability heuristic
Babbling
Concept
Overconfidence
One-word
Prototype
Framing effect
Two-word
Algorithm
Belief bias
Telegraphic speech
Heuristic
Belief perseverance
Skinner
Insight
Phonemes
Chomsky
Confirmation bias
Morphemes
Whorfs linguistic
Functional fixedness
Syntax
relativity
Representative heuristic
Semantics
Also review the stages of language development and evidence/criticisms for language in animals.
There is a practice test online (and in class) that is also a good review.
Review for Chapter 11
1. Why did Alfred Binet make the original intelligence test?
2. A 10-year-old child obtains a score of a 130 on an IQ test. What is his mental age?
3. There is a lot of debate about what intelligence is. However, there is one thing almost everybody agrees on.
What do most psychologists AGREE that intelligence is?
4. What is g?
5. For what is factor analysis used?
6. Contrast the beliefs about intelligence held by the following:
Binet, Terman, Gardiner, Spearman, Sternberg
7. Think of the 2 or 3 best assignments youve ever been given in school. Which type of intelligences did
they appeal to? Explain.
8. What is the WAIS? What are the two subtests?
9. What is emotional intelligence? What are some traits associated with people with high EQs?
10. How do each of the following relate to intelligence:
a. brain size -b. glucose consumption -c. perceptual speed
11. What is the difference between aptitude and achievement tests?
12. People rarely score more than 100 points different the second time they take the SAT. This indicates that
the SAT has high reliability or validity?
13. SAT scores do not correlate particularly well with college grades. This indicates that it has low reliability
or low validity?
14. Sampson was told that he correctly answered 80% of the items on a mathematical achievement test. He
asked how his performance compared with that of the average test taker. Sampsons concerns were directly
related to which aspect of test making?
15. List the five factors that are associated with high creative intelligence.
16. The tests you take for your classes have high (content, predictive) validity.
17. The mean for an intelligence test is 100. The standard deviation is 15.
a. What percentage of people score above 115?
b. This formula only works if the test produces a bell-shaped distribution of results. What do we call
this bell-shaped distribution?
18. At what age do intelligence test scores start to become fairly stable?
19. What is savant syndrome? Give an example.
20. What is the Flynn effect? What are some possible explanations for it?
Miscellaneous:
Examine the results of twin studies as it relates to heredity of intelligence.
Review the meaning of the term, heritability.
There is a Jeopardy game online that you may find useful.