Exam 15: Language and Thought Part 1

Robert knows how to say "red," but when his cousin asks him to name the colors of the cars that drive past their house, he says red for the red cars, the blue cars, the green cars, and the black cars. Robert's use of this word illustrates

In human's Broca's area is a small region in the left hemisphere of the brain that is crucial to language. PET scans that map brain activity while chimps are engaged in communication have found that chimps

Mayra wants to generate a set of anagrams for a contest in the campus paper. To generate the anagrams, she starts with the words that the contestants need to come up with to win the contest, and then scrambles the letters. In this case, Mayra's method of solving the problem is consistent with the problem-solving heuristic known as

Your dad has a problem; what to get your Mom for her birthday. He mentally reviews her reaction to presents he has given her in the past (an iron, a toaster, an ice cream maker, a waffle iron). If he decides to get her a cappuccino machine because she seemed to like "extra" appliances like the waffle iron more than the "routine" or necessary appliances like the iron, your Dad would be making use of which approach to problem-solving?

Brain imaging studies that have focused on identifying areas in non-human brains that are equivalent to Broca's area have concluded that the neurological substrates underlying language

The fact that overregularizations occur in many different languages as children master language skills provides evidence against

If your psychology professor gives students two separate grades on their essay questions on exams, one for content or meaning and the other for grammar, the first grade can be said to refer to the ____ and the second grade to the ____ of the essays.

The sudden discovery of the correct solution following incorrect attempts based primarily on trial and error is called

Fast mapping is

Salvador hates to work through the problems on his calculus assignments step-by-step, and he often tries shortcuts that might save him some time. It appears that Salvador prefers to use

Luchins' water jar problem illustrates how problem solving can be hindered by

Which perspective of language acquisition can best explain a young child (whose parents speak grammatical English) saying, "Yesterday I goed to the zoo?"

Recent research on the linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that

Pinker and Bloom (1992) suggest that human language may be a result of evolutionary processes because language allows humans to

Greeno referred to problems where individuals need to discover the relationships between the elements of a problem as problems of

Compared to individuals from Western cultures, individuals from Eastern Asian cultures are more likely to be

The sentence, "The nervous the stared thick at exam student" would be virtually impossible for an English speaker to understand because the sentence violates the rules of English

The main barrier to the solution of the nine-dot problem is that people tend to

Steven Pinker suggests that humans' language ability is a ____ that is the product of ____.

If an alternative is eliminated whenever it fails to satisfy some minimum criterion on an attribute, which decision-making strategy is being used?