Invitation to Psychology

246 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence You are about to learn... • how the ability to control attention enhances intelligenc ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 247 skills still keep making the same dumb choices in their relationships, and some people w ...

248 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence to the environment (you are in a dangerous neigh- borhood, so you become more vigilant). ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 249 et al., 2009). (You might review pages 57–59 to refresh your memory about heritability.) ...

250 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence children score higher on IQ tests than do birth siblings who were not adopted, probably ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 251 However, the few studies that have overcome past methodological problems fail to support ...

252 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence with young children; providing intense early educa- tion; and sending children to presch ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 253 In 1980, the Asian children far outperformed the American children on a broad battery of ...

254 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence differences: The Chinese had worse facilities and larger classes than the Americans, and ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 255 prewired and automatic (Wynne, 2004). The assassin bug of South America catches termites ...

256 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence try to find marks on their bodies that are not directly visible, suggesting self-recogni ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 257 Perhaps, however, some animals could acquire language if they got a little help from the ...

258 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence actually scored slightly better with new objects than with familiar ones, suggesting tha ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 259 the appropriate number of times. But a little careful experimentation by psychologist Os ...

260 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence Psychology in the news revisited H as reading this chapter given you an appreciation of ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 261 Becoming More Creative Throughout this book, we have been empha- sizing the importance o ...

262 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence Summary Thought: using What We Know • Thinking is the mental manipulation of informati ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 263 • IQ tests have been criticized for being biased in favor of white, middle-class peopl ...

264 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence cognitive psychology 227 concept 228 basic concept 228 prototype 229 proposition 229 cog ...

Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 265 Answers to the creativity test on page 261: back, party, book, match, cheese Some soluti ...