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Question 51

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The communication systems of the birds and the bees have high semanticity.

A) True
B) False

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__________are mental categories used to group together objects, relations, events, abstractions, or qualities that have common properties.

A) Concepts
B) Anagrams
C) Algorithms
D) Heuristics

E) All of the above
F) A) and C)

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Overregularization reflects faulty language development.

According to your text, true language is distinguished from the communication systems of lower animals by all of the following EXCEPT ______.

__________ is the quality of language in which words are used as symbols for objects, events, or ideas.

_________ refers to conscious, planned attempts to make sense of and change the world.

What is the name of the concept that infants are born with the innate ability to learn language?

According to research, intelligence quotient (IQ) scores tend to increase during the summer vacation.

Jane is a 10-year-old girl with a mental age (MA) of 12. Jane's intelligence quotient (IQ) calculated using Wilhelm Stern's formula is __________.

Patricia, a three-year-old girl, is having dinner. She looks at her father and says, "I eated food." In this scenario, Patricia is exhibiting _________.

__________is the degree to which the variations in a trait from one person to another can be attributed to, or explained by, genetic factors.

In Gestalt psychology, __________ is a sudden perception of relationships among elements of the mentally represented elements of a problem that permits its solution.

Identify a true statement about environmental influences on intelligence.

_________ believed that general intelligence was responsible for overall performance on mental ability tests.

In divergent thinking, thought is limited to present facts; the problem solver narrows his or her thinking to find the best solution, whereas, in convergent thinking, the problem solver associates freely to the elements of the problem, allowing "leads" to run a nearly limitless course.

Ava, a four-year-old girl, combines words to form her own sentences. In this scenario, Ava is demonstrating __________.

According to Robert Sternberg, there are three types of intelligence: analytical, creative, and practical.

__________ are rules of thumb that help us simplify and solve problems.

Cooper's fear of flying may, in part, stem from the ___________.

According to the linguistic-relativity hypothesis, language does not affect the way we perceive the world.