Exam 14: Thought and Language

You're watching your four-year-old niece trying to solve some problem she has encountered in an art project.She tries a number of different techniques and methods to solve the problem.Your niece is in the:

When a child says,"Me cookie" the child is demonstrating:

Of the following,which is not part of the language stages described in the textbook?

Which of the following descriptions is inaccurate regarding the traits of creative people?

In a study on political preferences,strong supporters of candidates use reasoning to evaluate their candidates' positions.

In what ways is the use of language by dolphins and chimps similar to the way we use language? In what ways does human language use differ?

Professor Synder studies how beliefs are changed when information that contradicts the belief is presented.Professor Synder uses the:

Professor Anderson has discovered a primitive tribe in the Amazon rainforest and has studied their language.She has found that this tribe has only seven emotions.She reasons that they should only perceive these seven emotions.She is basing her hypothesis on:

Brenda is watching a political debate.When her preferred candidate gets up to speak,she nods her head when he makes points with which he agrees.When he is saying things that she does not support,however,she simply turns away and talks to her roommate.Brenda's tendency to seek out information that is consistent with her beliefs is called the:

You've accepted a new job that will start in two months,but you have to move to a new city.The idea of moving doesn't appeal to you,since it is a very big task.A useful strategy is to break up the task into:

What is dyslexia? Explain the idea that the neural wiring in the brains of dyslexic individuals may be operating incorrectly.

Speakers of different languages all learn the same basic rules.Of the following,which is not one of these rules?

"Parentese," which includes speaking in a higher voice and stretching out each word,usually emerges from parents in response to their child's use of:

We tend to make decisions based on ____ rather than ____.

When you begin with a problem and devise many solutions,it is called ____,but if you come up with the one correct solution,it is called ____.

Functional fixedness allows us to see similarities between situations.

Describe three ways that men and women use language differently.What role do different brain areas play?

According to Chomsky,transformational rules allow us to:

The ideas of surface structure,deep structure,and transformational rules are part of:

Telegraphic speech is characterized by: