Exam 8: E: Thought and Language

According to classical categorization,people use specific _____ to decide if an object belongs to a specific category.

Seth tells his friend that he got two tickets to a big concert next week,to which his friend replies,"Get out of town!" Because of the context,Seth knows his friend is expressing excitement and doesn't really want him to leave town.This is an example of

The smallest units of language that convey meaning are known as

The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that

When Kwan's computer stopped working,he called the company's technical support line.The technician followed a predetermined set of steps from a manual to diagnose and help Kwan fix his computer over the phone.The steps that the technician followed are an example of a(n)

Han and Bert both bought the same new cell phone.Han spent several weeks reviewing the dozens of different phones and reading reviews online,trying to find the best phone possible for his needs.Bert simply bought the first phone that met his needs.Given the research on maximizers and satisficers,which is most likely to be the outcome?

Studies in which researchers have attempted to teach language to non-human animals have generally found that

People often overestimate the danger of shark attacks because it is often easy to think of news stories and reports of shark attacks.This is an example of how the _____ can sometimes lead to poor judgments.

Wernicke's area is most closely associated with

The "sensitive period" for language refers to