Psychology Chapter 8

1. Syndrome / Severely handicapped in overall intelligence yet demonstrate exceptional ability in a specific area such as art, calculation, memory, or music
4. / Degree to which a psychological test measures what it is intended to measure
6. / The understanding of the rules of what they say
8. / Educated guesses or rules of thumb used to solve problems
10. / language is learned through imitation, association, and reinforcement
12. / One form of doublespeak where an acceptable or inoffensive word or phrase is used in place of unacceptable or offensive one
13. Wechsler / He developed an intelligence test for adults
16. Speech / Young children leave words out of sentences
17. / The smallest unit of language that has meaning
18. / The test is administered the same way every time it is used
19. / Systematic procudure problem which may involve evaluating all possible solutions
20. / Mental process involving the manipulation of information in the form of images or concepts that is inferred from our behavior

2. / children are innately predisposed to acquire language
3. / We acquire it when we learn to organize words into phrases and sentences
5. / Psychology concerned with the study of highter mental processes
7. Relativity / hypothesis that suggests that our use of words can influence and even guide thought processes
9. / Unique sounds that can be joined to create words
11. Determinants / The environmental position suggests that the environment in which you were raised determines your level of intelligence
12. / People with statistically rare scores
13. / language purposely designed to make bad seem good, to turn negative into positive, or to avoid or shift responsibility
14. / Degree to which repeated administartions of a psychological test yield consistent scores
15. Determinants / The hereditary position suggests that genetic factors are responsible for intelligence