Exam 9: Language and Thought

The interactionist approach to language development differs from the nativist approach in that the interactionist approach:

When apes communicate using forms of human language,their communication typically lacks:

Prospect theory predicts that people will choose an 80% chance of winning $4,000 over $3,000 outright.

Family resemblance theory is useful for categorizing people as belonging to the same or different families,but it contributes little to our understanding of other categories.

The interactionist approach to language development focuses on the interplay between:

Which problem is an ill defined?

Noam Chomsky provided a behaviourist explanation of language development.

A necessary condition for being a professor of psychology at Harvard University is that one:

Jack the Ripper was a serial killer who,in 1888,murdered at least five women in London's slums.Medical examiners at the time were split on the issue of whether Jack the Ripper was right- or left-handed.In the population,about 90% of people were right-handed.Nevertheless,one of the doctors was adamant in his opinion that the wounds suggested a left-handed perpetrator.Based on all the data,what can MOST logically be concluded?

Research in cognitive neuroscience strongly suggests that category-specific brain organization is:

Sophie suffered a stroke that damaged the region where the temporal lobe meets the occipital and parietal lobes.Which task will Sophie find difficult?

Companies offer cash prizes for problems in need of solution posted on InnoCentive.com.Consistent with the results of Acar and Ende (2016),if you have expertise in the specific field most related to the problem posted,your chance of submitting a winning solution is maximized by:

It is possible for a sentence to obey grammatical and syntactical rules but be devoid of semantics.

If someone cannot identify a hammer,wrench,and screwdriver,that person also probably will have difficulty identifying different fruits and vegetables.

Some children who have their entire left brain hemispheres removed during adolescence as a treatment for epilepsy can recover many of their language abilities.

The availability bias happens when items that are more easily recalled from memory are judged as being more likely to occur.

Exemplar theory is more comprehensive than is prototype theory because it:

The word ball is a morpheme consisting of three phonemes.

Logic is another term for the process of reasoning.

The tendency to perceive the functions of objects as fixed or unchanging can be an impediment to effective problem solving.