Exam 14: Thought and Language

On a field trip to a primate language lab,you get to see Kinko,a chimp who has learned 250 signs.The researcher says that Kinko really does understand language in the same way that humans do.What do you say about that?

Module 14 starts off by describing a 14-month-old boy's use of ____ to illustrate the complexity of language.

Creative people are driven by:

The sentences "Ann kissed Jack" and "Jack was kissed by Ann" have different:

How would the exemplar theory and prototype theory explain how you develop the concept of bird?

After a word's letters are changed into sound,we must:

Chimps can create novel sentences.

Chomsky argues that an innate ____ allows us to create an endless number of sentences.

When examining language and animals,researchers believe that ____ is responsible for the development of human language.

Kanzi,a bonobo,has indicated a knowledge of word order.Psychologists estimate that his comprehension and use of abstract symbols is equivalent to that of a:

The three states of initial,operations,and goal are involved in ____.

We learn to shift back and forth between surface structure and deep structure by using:

A combination of flexibility in thinking and reorganization in understanding to produce innovative ideas is important in:

At what age do children become sensitized to sounds that make up their native language?

A prototype for a car would include:

During research for a paper on Kanzi,you found that he was taught using:

Which of the following is not a part of the definition of reasoning presented by your authors?

The prototype theory focuses on an "average"-looking object.

The term ____ refers to mental processes that we use to be creative,to form concepts,and to solve problems.

What two principles help us to understand language according to Chomsky?