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