Exam 8: D: Language,thinking,and Reasoning

A famous lecturer argues that because the Hopi Indians have only two nouns for things that fly,one for birds and another for non-birds,the Hopi must interpret all flying things in terms of these two nouns.This argument is based on

What do we call the hypothesis that language influences what we think?

All of the following are true about children's use of language except that

Studies using sign language or lexigram boards to teach chimpanzees language have found that

Studies that have demonstrated the ability of infants to engage in cognitive performance tests (such as looking and sucking procedures)provide evidence that

The best predictor of whether someone will achieve fluency in a second language is

Current beliefs about thought and language can be summarized by saying that

The analysis of how words are combined together to form grammatical sentences and phrases is at the level of

Following a severe bus accident in British Columbia where all passengers and the driver were killed,Dwayne decides that it would be safer to drive than take the bus on his next several trips through the mountains.Dwayne is basing his decision on the

Imagine a society in which people spoke a language with only two words for animals: animals with four feet and animals with more than four feet (insects,spiders,etc. ).What would Benjamin Whorf predict about those people?

According to the __________ account,children can deduce meaning of words they do not understand by inferring meaning from the context.

Brain activation in the frontal and parietal lobes may help us to break free of mental sets because these regions help us to

Recent research using neuroimaging has found that __________,as evidenced by patterns of brain activation.

Based on animal and human research,the development of language in human children is

The term dialect is used to indicate

Because our snap judgments are probably "good bets," the tendency to use heuristics and intuition might be considered

Consider the English word "rereading." Which of these is one morpheme in that word?

The fact that parents often repeat a baby's sounds into proper English supports which theory of language acquisition?

One explanation for schizophrenia holds that persons with schizophrenia have difficulty in filtering their attention.This is related to the concept of

If you polled some friends from Edmonton about the number of murders in this capital city,and other friends about the number of murders in the entire province of Alberta,you'd likely find that the average number of murders estimated for Edmonton is more than for the entire province.This impossible finding is best explained by the