Exam 9: Language and Thought-Part C

The nativist position argues that language-learning capacities are built into the brain.

Japanese infants cannot distinguish between the "l" and "r" phonemes.

Prospect theory predicts that people will be more likely to take risks in order to achieve gains than to avoid losses.

Between the ages of 1 and 5,children learn,on average,15-20 words every day.

Morphological rules and syntactical rules are part of grammar.

Logic is another term for the process of reasoning.

The tendency to perceive the functions of objects as fixed or unchanging can be an impediment to effective problem solving.

Infants begin to babble speech sounds between 1 and 3 months of age.

A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can be recognized as speech.

Parents spend little time teaching grammar to their children.

The linguistic relativity hypothesis states that language shapes the nature of thought.

English speakers shown a timeline on a horizontal display make faster time judgments than those shown a timeline on a vertical display.

Means-ends analysis was first described by Friedrich Gauss.

There is a surge in electrical activity in the left frontal lobe about one third of a second before an insightful "Aha!" moment is experienced.

Babies typically start speaking in single words by 5 months of age.

The average 1-year-old has a vocabulary of 10 words.

Explicit awareness of grammatical rules is not required in order for speakers of a language to speak grammatically.

Being in a positive mood may aid the occurrence of a flash of insight.

Theoretical reasoning is reasoning directed toward arriving at a belief.

Interactionist theories of language development argue that social interactions,not innate biological processes,are responsible for the development of language.