Exam 8: Thought and Language

When people attempt to solve a problem involving numbers they may find themselves using another number called ____________ to keep their response within a limited range.

Han and Bert both bought the same new cell phone.Han spent several weeks reviewing the dozens of different phones and reading reviews online,trying to find the best phone possible for his needs.Bert simply bought the first phone that met his needs.Given the research on maximizers and satisficers,which is most likely to be the outcome?

In technical terms,the techniques individuals use to reach to solve problems are referred to as ______________.

Rules of thumb that do not guarantee a solution but may help bring one within reach are called __________.

A writer pitches a sitcom idea to a network executive called "Don't Tell Him He's Adopted!" about a chimpanzee raised from birth as a member of a suburban American family.In technical terms the chimpanzee in the show's premise is being _______________,a technique that has been used to try teaching language to non-human animals.

The difference between a well-formed and ill-formed sentence usually comes down to _____________.

The study of how people extract meaning from words is called _____.

The tendency to perceive and approach problems in certain ways is called __________.

Following a stroke,Rahul's grandfather lost the ability to understand when people would ask him questions.In addition,when his grandfather spoke,the words make sense,but the sentences do not.The stroke appears to have damaged which area of the brain?

The most basic of units of spoken language are called _________.

What term do psychologists use to describe our tendency to search for evidence that supports our belief and to ignore evidence that might disprove it?

All forms of communication can be considered types of language.

The fact that humans so often rely on heuristics is evidence that

The tendency to solve problems using procedures or strategies that worked in the past on similar problems is called:

According to a study discussed in your textbook,participants performing a lexical decision task were able to identify strings of letters such as "nutcracker" and "reindeer" as being real words faster in December than other times of the year.This indicates that the holiday season creates a ____________ effect for related certain words.

______________ is the study of nonlinguistic elements of language use.

An admissions director for a college decides to keep the existing admissions policy since 80 percent of the students admitted eventually graduate.Unknown to her,90 percent of the rejected applicants would also have been successful graduates.Her decision-making process is hampered by __________.

Kyle is buying a new mattress for his bed.Instead of spending hours or days finding the perfect mattress,Kyle buys the first mattress that is in his price range,and feels "comfortable enough." Kyle's behavior is typical of a(n)_______________.

In the nine-dot problem discussed in your textbook,the rules do not specify that the lines cannot extend beyond the dots,however most people try to find a solution that follows this non-existent rule anyway.This is an example of:

Because of the availability heuristic,Jayne and her husband are most likely to exaggerate the risk to their children of ____________.