Exam 9: Language and Thought-Part C

The availability bias happens when items that are more easily recalled from memory are judged as being more likely to occur.

B.F.Skinner believed that all humans are born with an LAD (Leaning Acquisition Device).

People with Broca's aphasia primarily have difficulty understanding language.

People who are blind from birth show category-specific deficits for objects that are categorized in the visual cortex.

Rational choice theory accurately describes how humans make most of their daily decisions.

A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of language.

At every stage of language development,humans speak better than they understand what is spoken to them.

It is possible for a sentence to obey grammatical and syntactical rules but be devoid of semantics.

Genetic dysphasia is a condition in which people with genetically based low intelligence cannot learn the basic grammatical structure of language.

Meeting a sufficient condition for membership into a club guarantees club membership.

The left brain hemisphere is primarily involved in forming prototypes,and the right brain hemisphere is mainly active in recognizing exemplars.

Accents occur when morphological rules are violated.

The phrase "over and back" is a good example of telegraphic speech.

The word when is a function morpheme.

The brain appears to be hardwired such that certain areas of the brain respond more strongly to some categories than others.

Among Americans,the prototypical bird is the bald eagle.

One of the challenges to the success of analogical problem solving is that people are strongly affected by superficial similarities between problems when the relationship between analogous problems often lies deep in their structure.

Deep structure refers to the meaning of a sentence.

Apes who have acquired the use of human language usually can construct complex,grammatically correct sentences.

Today,most cognitive psychologists believe that language and thought are largely synonymous.