Exam 10: Thinking and Language

Problem solvers who experience insight must have first experienced an obstacle that seemed to not be passable, called a(n)

Because of the egocentric bias, when gathering evidence, people are often simply "building a case" for what they already believe rather than actively attempting to discover the truth.

Which of the following presents the most valid conclusion regarding the existence of Systems 1 and 2?

In 1998, this gorilla, trained in American Sign Language, became the first nonhuman to conduct a live Internet chat session.

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of creativity as defined by psychologists?

_________is the quality of language that allows a person to use the relatively small number of words and grammatical structures of a language to compose a theoretically infinite number of sentences expressing an infinite number of new thoughts and ideas.

Pollick & de Waal found that the arm and hand gestures in different species of nonhuman primates were flexible in their content. That result provides evidence in favour of the hypothesis that language evolved fro

If you forgot the combination to your locker, you might fiddle with it for a while hoping eventually to hit upon the right numbers. This is an example of which basic problem-solving strategy?

This interdisciplinary science that studies the collecting, processing, storing, retrieving, and manipulating of information is called

This aspect of thinking is a mental shortcut designed to help us make judgments and decisions when all the facts are not known

This heuristic works by biasing us toward mental information, memories, or images that are more easily "accessible" to our consciousness

The grammar that one learns in school, which reflects standards in ways of speaking, is called

Why is it so interesting to linguists that children say things like "taked" instead of "took" or "badder" instead of "worse"?

This theory denies the existence of the language faculty and instead asserts that the mechanisms of the mind are "plastic" in the sense of being highly flexible and adaptable

The gambler's fallacy is most related to which of the following cognitive biases?

When people fear boarding a plane because of a recent terrorist attack, while ignoring the fact that the likelihood of experiencing a terrorist attack while aboard a plane is extremely small, this heuristic is at work

Humans are relatively unique because we are able to use language to converse about things that do not exist, are abstract, or have yet to occur. This is called

One conclusion that can be drawn from the debate about when life begins-with conception or with birth-is that the concept of life has

A person is more likely to see the "family resemblance" between an item and other members of a concept if the item matches this representative member of the concept

Which mental representation would we need to utilize to think about abstract words like time, ambivalence, and fatigue?