Exam 9: Language and Thinking

Which of the following is FALSE regarding mental imagery?

You are trying to imagine how you are going to toss your keys across the crowded room to your friend.This is an example of

A young child enters a store by pushing a door open.Every time they come to a door after that,the child pushes the door expecting it to open,even though many doors only open by pulling.This is an example of:

The 2-year old will speak using a sentence consisting of just a noun and a verb.This is referred to as

Harry makes a statement to a group of friends that,"people who drive red cars get more speeding tickets".The group agrees with the statement because a member of the group,"Jim",drives a red car and frequently gets speeding tickets.This is an example of making a decision based on

Men often show more severe aphasic responses than women to a stroke in the left hemisphere.Why might this be the case?

Michael goes to a French immersion school because his parents want him to be proficient in French.According to the recent research,Michael

Inductive reasoning is to _____ as deductive reasoning is to _____.

You are trying to unscrew the battery cover on your alarm clock,but you do not have a screwdriver.If you realize that a dime can be used as a screwdriver and then use it,you have avoided the problem of

Sherlock Holmes,the famous detective,notices that all of the coffee cups in your house have the handles facing to the left.He concludes that you must,therefore,be left-handed.Sherlock has just used

Professor Krizan is studying the remote people in the interior of New Zealand.She claims that there is a strong relation between their language and their way of thinking.In fact,she claims that language determines how they think.Her observations are most consistent with

In English,are there more 4-letter words starting with the letter "k" or with "k" as the third letter? Most people answer that there are more words starting with "k",but in fact,there are many more with "k" as the third letter (make,bake,take,etc. ).One reason that people choose starting with "k" is likely

Professor Jones and Professor Smith are having a discussion on whether or not apes are capable of language.Professor Jones argues that they do not,while Smith says that they do.To make the strongest argument,Smith would probably refer to the research on

Let's say that you are looking at the following image: o.If you were asked to draw the image and your drawing was this: C,we might expect:

If you have a mental framework for the behaviour of "going out to dinner",we would refer to this framework as

Which of the following is NOT a component of wisdom?

Kanzi,the bonobo chimp,has been shown to communicate using complex symbols.However,the evidence for language development in apes related to ____________ is more controversial.

Jane gets a phone call from someone she was just thinking about.She concludes that whenever she thinks of someone they will call.However,she is making a mistake because she is not remembering how often she DID NOT get a call when thinking about a person.This is an example of

A headline in a newspaper reads "Suicide more common than thought".This is an example of a sentence that

Professor Jones and Professor Smith are having a discussion on whether or not apes are capable of language.Professor Jones argues that they do not,while Smith says that they do.To make the strongest argument,Jones would probably refer to the research on