Exam 8: Thought and Language

Damage to the region of the cortex known as __________________ is most likely to produce difficulty speaking, but have relatively little effect on understanding speech.

Seth tells his friend that he got two tickets to a big concert next week, to which his friend replies, "Get out of town!" Because of the context, Seth knows his friend is expressing excitement and doesn't really want him to leave town. This is an example of:

What is fast mapping?

________ categorization approaches assume that all members of a category share a number of defining features.

The _____ occurs when an individual searches for only evidence that will confirm his or her beliefs.

______________ are problem-solving strategies based on a series of rules, while ______________are strategies that stem from prior experiences and provide an educated guess as to what is the most likely solution are called.

People tend to judge the probability of an event by how easy it is to think of examples of the event.

The ability to communicate information about the past, future, and other locations is a unique property of ___________.

Studies where researchers have attempted to teach language to non-human animals have generally found that:

Initial state, goal state, and obstacles are the three main features of ___________.

In technical terms, the techniques individuals use to reach to solve problems are referred to as ______________.

Satisficers are individuals who:

Johannes has been a car mechanic for many years and is very good at diagnosing problems with cars. However, when an electric car comes into the garage, his approach to diagnosing the problem is unsuccessful. Johannes failure is likely the result of:

When someone does not see that a tool can be used for something other than its intended purpose, then ________________ can be said to have occurred.

Which of the following conclusions is the most logical to draw from the fact that mice and songbirds have versions of the FOXP2 gene that is very similar to the form found in humans?

Because of the availability heuristic, Jayne and her husband are most likely to exaggerate the risk to their children of ____________.

Which of the following is a heuristic approach to determining how many brownies to make for a party?

Concepts and categories are important because they allow us to:

When tested in a laboratory study, Reese identified the statement, "Cows make milk" as true faster than she did the statement "Cows breathe air." What does this likely indicate about the relationship between categories in her semantic network?

A child's ability to map words onto concepts or objects after only a single exposure to them is called ____________.