Exam 7: Thought and Language

Hannah knows her patient has muscle pain and suspects a strained muscle.She then asks the patient only about symptoms associated with a strained muscle and not about symptoms associated with other conditions involving muscle pain.Hannah is exhibiting ____.

Based on research with nonhuman primates,many researchers believed that there really was not much that is unique about humans' language skills.One challenge to this line of thinking is that ____.

To understand the sequence of commands necessary to edit,save,and retrieve a computer file,people may use a ____ that consists of propositions such as "Pressing the F10 key stores the file in a place on the disk," "Each file must have its own name," and so on.

You are a juror in a murder trial.You must decide how believable a witness's testimony is.To do so,you must use ____ reasoning.

To solve theproblem of low employee morale at Initech,Mr.Lumberg hires consultants who are experts in human resources.We can expect the consultants to more clearly visualize the problem and make connections between behaviors and outcomes because experts are more likely to use ____ as they process information

Sumon is in the first stages of learning to speak.Both personal experience and genetic predisposition will interact to help him identify the basic dimensions of language.This idea supports the existence of ____.

Corisna is an introductory psychology student who participates in a reaction time experiment.In this experiment,she is asked to press her foot on a pedal when she hears the sound of a horn.Her reaction time will be most affected by ____.

Terrance is training for the track meet next week.His coach reminds him to be mentally focused for the event and to not anticipate the starting gun too much,as a false start would disqualify Terrance.This example demonstrates that reaction time is susceptible to____.

Jerry is deciding which of two women to ask out on a date.He lists the positive and negative attributes of each woman: how attractive she is and whether she has good table manners.Kramer tells Jerry that he should also rate how much he values each of these attributes before making his decision.This rating of the subjective value of attributes is called ____.

After watching the winner of American Idol tell her story of going from a simple girl to a famous singer,Sun was convinced that she too could be on the show and become famous.Sun's reaction demonstrates how people tend to ____. exaggerate the expected value of a future outcome

Kriss enters a haunted house for the first time,and it is so dark that she can't see a thing.Kriss will probably have trouble navigating because she lacks a ____ of the haunted house.

Laverne works on an assembly line,spotting defective bottles.Recently,her performance has been poor and her boss warns her that if she misses one more defective bottle,she will be fired.Laverne's reaction time will ____ because of the changed ____.

The processes of describing,elaborating,deciding,planning,and guiding action make up the ____.

The meaning of the word "pot" can be altered simply by changing the vowel to an "a",forming the word "pat".In this example,"a" is a(n)____.

One day at the elementary school playground,Chuckie,the fifth-grade class clown,was making all the kids laugh by repeatedly saying,"Loud leaves linger on Lulu." Mr.Lavender,Chuckie's teacher,overheard Chuckie's nonsense sentence and pointed out that the sentence violated ____.

The rules of semantics are most like ____,and the rules of syntax are most like ____.

Dwight is writing a letter to his friend Jim.He wants his writing to sound impressive,so he uses the thesaurus function on his computer to change some of the words.He changes the sentence "My character on the soap opera was killed" to "My moral fiber on the soap opera was defeated." Dwight has changed ____ of the sentence.

Wilhelm is being raised in a bilingual environment,learning to speak both German and French before the end of the critical period.Assuming Wilhelm has equally mastered both languages,what would you most likely discover when Wilhelm is in junior high?

When evaluating psychological research,it is important to scrutinize whether the collected data support or refute the original hypothesis.Which error is an experimenter most likely to make?

Gabriel is just beginning to speak in words.He says "Daddy!" and "Car." Gabriel is most likely ____ old.