Exam 9: Language and Thinking

When a problem is too difficult to solve immediately, incubation may help because this strategy ________.

In 1970, Spencer Silver was trying to formulate a strong adhesive for the 3M Company, and one of his failed attempts resulted in an extremely weak adhesive. Four years later, frustrated by how often his markers fell out of his church hymnal, Arthur Fry coated them with Silver's adhesive. The markers stayed in place but could be peeled out of the book without damaging the pages. Post-it Notes are now one of the top five-selling office products in the United States. Fry's novel approach is a good example of

Which of the following is FALSE regarding mental imagery?

After reading chapter 9 in the text, you are really not sure what you know and do not know. To a cognitive psychologist, your difficulty involves

Research on the once-controversial linguistic relativity hypothesis has revealed that it does an effective job of explaining the link between language, thought, and perception and may actually have initially been understated.

A heuristic is a procedure that always generates a correct answer.

Tallulah has just started learning how to play the piano. Although she doesn't have a piano at home, she can still think about the sequence of key presses she needs to make to correctly play a scale. This allows her to engage in some limited rehearsal without ever even touching a piano. To accomplish this, she uses _____ thought.

The fact that children in all cultures are able to master the rules of language relatively early in life without formal instruction was discussed as evidence indicating that

Which of the following would be best considered an example of the motoric mode of thought?

As you read this sentence, you can hear yourself saying the words silently in your mind. This type of thinking is known as

After the cooing stage comes the __________ stage. At this point, children ________.

In Luchins' water jar problems, participants are asked to use three jars of differing volumes (A, B, and C) to create various final amounts of water. After the first few trials, participants learn that the same formula (B-A-2C) will provide the answer for each of the first few problems. However, Luchins noticed that people had the tendency to continue using this formula on other problems, even when these problems had simpler solutions (such as A-C). This particular problem-solving block is called

Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective, notices that all of the coffee cups in your house have the handles facing to the left. He concludes that you must, therefore, be left-handed. Sherlock has just used

When Thierry goes through a fast-food restaurant drive-thru, he knows that he will pull his car up to a speaker and wait until he is greeted. He also knows that after he places his order he should drive forward and give his money to the person in the window. That person will then give him his food, and he will drive away. In other words, Thierry has a/an _____________ for going through a drive-thru.

Consider the statement, "Last night, I shot an elephant in my pajamas." Since this sentence has at least two different interpretations (the pajamas could be worn by the person shooting the elephant OR they could be worn by the elephant), this means that this sentence has

Nadalia is a physician who works in the emergency room at a local hospital. In medical school, she learned a variety of schemas that help her decide who needs immediate care, what kinds of sicknesses patients have, and how best to treat them. Her patients rely on her to know what to do to help them. As Nadalia's knowledge of emergency medicine develops, her brain functioning will change to increase her

The sentence, "Psychology test taking I am" demonstrates incorrect ________.

When considering language, a biologist would propose that there is a maturational sensitive period for acquiring normal language capabilities?

Professor Jones and Professor Smith are having a discussion on whether or not apes are capable of language. Professor Jones argues that they do not, while Smith says that they do. To make the strongest argument, Smith would probably refer to the research on

Summarize the four major stages of problem solving. Why are problem framing and mental sets important?