PSY200 Thinking & Intelligence

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Across
  1. 2. A general intelligence factor that underlies specific mental abilities
  2. 3. Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they represent a prototype
  3. 5. Impairment of language usually caused by damage to the left hemisphere
  4. 8. A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test
  5. 10. A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a problem
  6. 11. The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
  7. 12. A system of rules that enables us to communicate and understand others
  8. 13. Estimating the likelihood of events based on how easily examples come to mind
  9. 18. A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
  10. 19. A score derived from standardized tests to measure intelligence
  11. 20. The smallest distinctive sound unit in language
  12. 21. A tendency to approach problems in the same way that has worked in the past
  13. 24. All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
  14. 29. The stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in single words
  15. 30. The smallest unit that carries meaning in language
  16. 32. Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group
  17. 33. A sudden realization of a problem’s solution
  18. 34. An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought
  19. 35. Clinging to beliefs even after they’ve been discredited
Down
  1. 1. Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs
  2. 4. The tendency to be more confident than correct
  3. 6. The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can affect decisions and judgments
  4. 7. A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions
  5. 9. Controls language reception; involved in language comprehension
  6. 14. Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning
  7. 15. Beginning about age 2, the stage in which a child speaks mostly in two-word statements
  8. 16. The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions
  9. 17. The extent to which a test yields consistent results
  10. 22. Controls language expression; directs muscle movements involved in speech
  11. 23. A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill
  12. 25. The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt
  13. 26. The stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds
  14. 27. A mental image or best example of a category
  15. 28. A simple thinking strategy that allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently
  16. 31. The extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure