Exam 9: Language and Thought

Jen was concerned when her 4-year-old son Anthony started saying,"I eated dinner." Jen should not worry because Anthony is simply:

A mental representation that groups or categorizes shared features of related objects is also known as a(n):

The brain appears to be hardwired such that certain areas of the brain respond more strongly to some categories than others.

People with genetic dysphasia:

The likelihood of two events occurring simultaneously is always less than the likelihood of either event occurring alone.

When a lottery jackpot is larger than usual:

_____ is a system of rules that specifies which conclusions follow from a set of statements.

The linguistic relativity hypothesis was first proposed by:

On the day 3-year-old Isabel helped her father build bookshelves,she added the terms "board," "measuring tape," and "dowel" to her vocabulary after her first encounter with these objects.This is an example of:

Explicit awareness of grammatical rules is not required in order for speakers of a language to speak grammatically.

Research involving brain damage and risky decision making has often focused on which brain region?

In a study by Bowers and colleagues (1990),participants were shown three words and were asked to generate a fourth word consistent with the series.Solvable series were termed:

By the age of 5 years,the average child has a vocabulary of about _____ words.

Humans are better at judging frequencies than they are at judging probabilities.

Based on research investigating the link between language and thought,Benjamin Whorf concluded that:

A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can be recognized as speech.

A sufficient condition for being a bird is:

Which view of language development holds that language is an innate,biological capacity that humans possess?

Which condition is necessary for being a professional football player?

A simple count of the number of times an event occurs is a _____ measure.