Exam 8: C: Thought and Language

Brenda is worried about having her six-year-old daughter learn Spanish,because she fears that learning a second language will interfere with her daughter's mastery of English.What advice should you give Brenda?

Humans appear to lose the ability to hear sounds related to a non-native language,around the age of:

Frank mistakenly believes that there are more words that begin with the letter "k" than there are with the letter "k" in the third position due to __________________.

The most basic of units of spoken language are called _________.

The concepts of dog,cat,and goldfish can be grouped together to form a _____________ called pets.

The ___________ hypothesis states that language influences how we view the world.

A person with damage to Broca's area is likely to have difficulty_______________,but should still be able to _____________ relatively well.

Jenny is deciding on which invitations to use for her wedding.If Jenny is a maximizer,she is most likely to:

In a research study,participants are told that Louis has lived in Boston his whole life.They are then asked which is more likely: A)Louis is a baseball fan,or B)Louis is a baseball fan who roots for the Boston Red Sox.Which of the following is true?

The rules for combining words and morphemes into meaningful phrases and sentences are called _________.

Which of the following is a unique property of language that helps to distinguish it from other forms of communication?

When using the availability heuristic,people tend to judge the probability of an event based on:

Which of the following is most likely to be a basic-level category?

According to your textbook,in which way do Americans and the Japanese tend to differ?

Which of the following conclusions is the most logical to draw from the fact that mice and songbirds have versions of the FOXP2 gene that is very similar to the form found in humans?

Which decision-making strategy involves making judgments of likelihood based on how well an example represents a specific category?

Harmony believes that vaccines are dangerous.Rather than taking into consideration all of the evidence demonstrating their safety and efficacy,Harmony searches for the occasional studies that suggest that there may be risks associated with vaccines.This is an example of a ___________.

Some members of the KE family discussed in your textbook have trouble putting thoughts into words.This deficit appears to be caused by:

When tested in a laboratory study,Reese identified the statement,"Cows make milk" as true,faster than she did the statement "Cows breathe air." What does this likely indicate about the relationship between categories in her semantic network?

______________ is the study of nonlinguistic elements of language use.