Exam 9: Language and Thought-Part A

Which statement about cultural differences in language use related to color is TRUE?

Acar and Ende (2016)recently studied proposed solutions to problems posted on InnoCentive.com.They recorded if the submitter was an insider or an outsider as it pertains to expertise in the field,if the proposed solution relied extensively on one domain or knowledge or several,how much effort was put into the submission,and whether or not the submission was a winning entry.They found that insiders,relative to outsiders,were MOST likely to win when they:

Which expression is an example of telegraphic speech?

A concept CANNOT be a(n):

Research on color meaning with JB,who suffered progressive deteriorations in understanding the meaning of words,even though he perFormed well on many other perceptual and cognitive tasks,demonstrated that JB was able to:

Insight problem solving is uncommon because problem solving suffers from:

Means-ends analysis got its start by looking at how people solved _____ problems.

Functional fixedness occurs when we:

Linguists have grouped the distinct human languages into about _____ language families.

Recent research on insight suggests that insightful solutions:

About _____ of European Union citizens speak a second language.

Studies of the acquisition of a new language in internationally adopted preschoolers are useful because they allow researchers to:

A mental representation that groups or categorizes shared features of related objects is also known as a(n):

Jack the Ripper was a serial killer who,in 1888,murdered at least five women in London's slums.Medical examiners at the time were split on the issue of whether Jack the Ripper was right- or left-handed.In the population,about 90% of people are right-handed.Nevertheless,one of the doctors was adamant in his opinion that the wounds suggested a left-handed perpetrator.Based on all the data,what can MOST logically be concluded?

Babies begin to use single words at an average age of _____ months.

In a study by Bowers and colleagues (1990),participants were shown three words and were asked to generate a fourth word consistent with the series.Which grouping is a coherent series?

Healthy participants and participants with prefrontal cortex damage played a gambling game in which they selected cards from one of four decks.Two of the decks were associated with large wins and large losses (riskier),and the other two decks were associated with small wins and small losses (safer).At the beginning of the game,all participants chose cards from the four decks equally.With extended play,the healthy participants chose more cards from the _____,whereas the participants with prefrontal cortex damage chose cards from _____.

The Dani,an isolated tribe living in New Guinea,have only two words for colors,roughly corresponding to "light" and "dark." According to the linguistic relativity hypothesis,they should:

_____ reasoning is reasoning with the aim of arriving at a belief.

Another name for theoretical reasoning is _____ reasoning.