Exam 10: Thinking and Language

People's automatic,unconscious associations with a political position can predict their future decisions before they consciously make up their minds.This best illustrates the power of

Spoken,written,or signed words and the ways they are combined to communicate meaning constitute

Infants can learn the difference between syllable sequences that follow an ABA pattern (such as ga-ti-ga )and those that follow an ABB pattern (such as wo-fe-fe ).This best illustrates the infant's capacity for

In suggesting that our ancestral history has prepared us to fear snakes,psychologists are emphasizing that what we fear is influenced by

Most people take less time to identify a cow as a mammal than a mouse as a mammal because a cow more closely resembles their mammal

People are quicker to recognize that sharp chest pain is a symptom of a heart attack than that shortness of breath is a symptom of a heart attack.This is because sharp pain more closely matches their heart attack

In one experiment,researchers were able to improve participants' insight by using electrical stimulation to the left hemisphere to ________ its activity and the right hemisphere to ________ its activity.

Two-year-old Dirk's sentences-"Dad come," "Mom laugh," and "Truck gone"-are examples of

Max is so used to thinking that a tough competitive style of behavior is the best way to impress others that he fails to recognize that the most effective way to impress his girlfriend is with cooperative tenderness.Max's oversight best illustrates

Myra has such low self-esteem that she is often on the lookout for critical comments about her appearance and personality.Myra's behavior best illustrates the dangers of

Encouraging people to elaborate on why their own personal views on an issue are correct is most likely to promote

Kristina,a high school English teacher,is eager to promote creativity in her writing class students.Which of the following reminders is likely to do the most to accomplish her goal?

Damage to different cortical areas results in different forms of aphasia.This best illustrates that language processing involves multiple

The part of the left temporal lobe that is involved in understanding language is known as

Compared with deaf children exposed to sign language from birth,those who first learn sign language as teens are less likely to

Beatrice and Allen Gardner taught the chimpanzee Washoe to communicate by means of

Infants are first able to discriminate speech sounds during the ________ stage.

U.S.employees who formerly wanted to defer part of their compensation to a 401(k)retirement plan typically had to lower their take-home pay as they "opted in" to the plan.Now companies are being encouraged to enroll their employees in the 401(k)plan automatically while allowing them to choose to raise their take-home pay by "opting-out" of the 401(k)plan.Under the "opt out" rather than "opt-in" system,enrollments in 401(k)plans soared.This best illustrates the impact of

After a mild stroke,Mr.McGeorge showed some signs of aphasia.What pattern of symptoms would lead you to believe the damage occurred primarily in Broca's area? What different symptom

The risks of smoking are more alarming when presented in terms of the number of smokers with lung cancer than the percentage of smokers with lung cancer.This illustrates the importance of