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Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language 281 domain- specific knowledge, reading and writing, and quantitative knowledge. ...

282 CHAPTER 7 Measuring Intelligence 7 Compare and contrast some methods of measuring intelligence. The history of intelligence ...

Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language 283 items vary by task and difficulty and are typically completed successfully a ...

284 CHAPTER 7 Test Construction: Good Test, Bad Test? 8 Identify ways to evaluate the quality of a test. All tests are not equa ...

Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language 285 distribution (Eysenck, 1994): IQ is assumed to be normally distributed with ...

286 CHAPTER 7 That’s right—think about the definition of intelligence for a moment: the ability to learn from one’s experiences, ...

Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language 287 THINKING CRITICALLY What kind of questions would you include on an intellige ...

288 CHAPTER 7 Neuropsychologists often work with individuals who have traumatic brain injury (TBI). Many traumatic brain injurie ...

Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language 289 DIAGNOSIS Previous editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Ment ...

290 CHAPTER 7 by the mother, and even diseases and accidents during childhood can lead to intellectual disability. One thing sho ...

Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language 291 Classic Studies in Psychology Terman’s “Termites” Te r m a n ’s ( 1 9 2 5 ) ...

292 CHAPTER 7 Yet another longitudinal study (Torrance, 1993) found that in both gifted students and gifted adults, there is mor ...

Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language 293 the defensiveness measure. These same participants also had higher SAT score ...

294 CHAPTER 7 Wait a minute—if identical twins have a correlation of .86, wouldn’t that mean that intelligence is 86 percent inh ...

Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language 295 development (Trzaskowski et al., 2014; von Stumm & Plomin, 2015). Some o ...

296 CHAPTER 7 between race and IQ, not race and intelligence. Second, they assumed that intelligence itself is very heavily infl ...

Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language 297 Practice Quiz How much do you remember? Pick the best answer. In Gardner’s ...

298 CHAPTER 7 Language In Chapter Six we discussed how language can possibly affect our memory. For example, being asked “Did yo ...

Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language 299 SYNTAX Syntax is a system of rules for combining words and phrases to form g ...

300 CHAPTER 7 Table 7. 4 Stages of Language Development Cooing: At around 2 months of age, babies begin to make vowel-like soun ...