Across
- 3. a member of a natural concept that possesses all or most of its characteristic features
- 5. tests designed to measure what a person has accomplished or learnt in a particular area
- 6. the scientific study and measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality and other psychological characteristics
- 9. eight semiindependent kinds of intelligence postulated by Howard Gardner
- 11. the basic power of reasoning and problem-solving
- 12. a concept that has no fixed set of defining features but has a set of characteristic features
- 13. a mental representation of a familiar sequence of activity
- 14. a mental shortcut in which judgements are based on information that is most easily brought to mind
- 16. the specific knowledge gained as a result of applying fluid intelligence
- 18. Robert Sternberg’s theory that describes intelligence as having analytic, creative and practical dimensions
- 20. the process of evaluating a conclusion, theory or course of action based on the evidence available to support it
- 21. the process of following a set of rigorous procedures for reaching valid conclusions
- 22. categories of objects, events or ideas that have common properties
- 23. The Stanford-Binet test is a examination meant to gauge intelligence through five factors of cognitive ability. These five factors include fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing and working memory.
- 24. a stage of language development during which children tend to use one word at a time
- 25. the first sounds infants make that resemble speech
- 26. tests designed to measure a person’s capacity to learn certain things or perform certain tasks
- 27. the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.
Down
- 1. the first sounds infants make that resemble speech
- 2. a set of propositions that represent people’s understanding of how things look and work
- 3. a way of studying intelligence that emphasises analysis of the products of intelligence, especially scores on intelligence tests
- 4. a mental representation of the relationship between concepts
- 7. mental shortcuts
- 8. a mental shortcut that involves judging whether something belongs in a given class on the basis of its similarity to other members of that class
- 10. personal attributes that centre on skill at information processing, problem-solving and adapting to new or changing environments
- 15. mental representations (generalisations) of categories of objects, events and people
- 17. the process by which people generate and evaluate arguments and reach conclusions about them
- 19. a mental shortcut that involves basing judgements on existing information