Exam 9: Language and Thought-Part C

Prospect theory predicts that people will choose an 80 percent chance of winning $4,000 over $3,000 outright.

Functional fixedness occurs when the wrong past analogy is applied to a new goal state problem.

Means-ends analysis is a type of theoretical reasoning.

Practical reasoning involves an action-oriented goal.

If someone cannot identify a hammer,wrench,and screwdriver,that person also probably will have difficulty identifying different fruits and vegetables.

A language acquisition device (LAD)is something that is acquired through experience.

Algorithms are mental shortcuts that sometimes lead to incorrect decisions.

Learning a second language during childhood broadly impairs cognitive development.

Humans are better at judging frequencies than they are at judging probabilities.

Given that Michael is 6 feet 4 inches tall and can dunk a basketball,it is more likely that Michael is an NBA basketball player than he is a Walmart employee.

The surface structure of a sentence is more likely to be remembered than its deep structure.

The likelihood of two events occurring simultaneously is always less than the likelihood of either event occurring alone.

The word ball is a morpheme consisting of three phonemes.

Noam Chomsky provided a behaviorist explanation of language development.

Some children who have their entire left brain hemispheres removed during adolescence as a treatment for epilepsy can recover many of their language abilities.

Functional fixedness is a type of framing effect.

Eleanor Rosch developed both family resemblance theory and prototype theory.

A prototype possesses most,if not all,of the most characteristic features of the category.

Human infants can distinguish among all of the contrasting sounds that occur in all human languages.

Both prototypes and exemplars are used when forming categories and concepts.