COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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stereotype threat.
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telegraphic speech.
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a deprived environment.
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savant syndrome.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Binet and Simon created a test designed to predict which children would succeed and which ones would have difficulty in school. Binet and Simon conceptualized the idea of mental age, the cognitive abilities that should correspond to a particular age.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the early 1900s, the Ministry of Education in France tasked psychologist Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon with devising a way to identify children who were struggling with ordinary class and needed extra attention. The result of their work helped inspire an intelligence test still in use today.
Detailed explanation-3: -Introduced by Albert Binet and published as the Simon–Binet test in 1905 (Binet and Simon, 1905), the first tool for the assessment of intelligence was aimed to detect and support children with special needs. The items included in this test battery reflected age-appropriate intellectual ability.
Detailed explanation-4: -The correlation of intelligence test scores for identical twins raised together is about +. 85. For identical twins raised apart, the correlation is about +. 72.