Exam 9: Language and Thought

Fast mapping occurs when children associate a word with its underlying concept after a single exposure to that word.

About _____ of European Union citizens speak a second language.

Research suggests that people are better at _____ reasoning than at _____ reasoning.

Semantics refers to the _____ of a sentence.

The word when is a function morpheme.

Agnes suffered a stroke that resulted in brain damage.Agnes now speaks in short staccato sentences devoid of function morphemes.Agnes,however,does not have difficulty understanding the meaning of language spoken to her.She probably has suffered damage to the _____ cortex.

The idea that members of a category have features that appear to be characteristic of category members,but may not be possessed by every member is called:

"B" and "p" differ in the way they are produced by a human speaker.As such,they are both examples of:

Behaviourist explanations of language development emphasize how language is acquired through shaping and reinforcement.

Recent research on bilingualism that corrected the flaws from earlier studies indicates that bilingualism is associated with:

With respect to language acquisition,in what ways-if any-do internationally adopted preschoolers learning a new language differ from monolingual infants?

Which statement about a child's mastery of language is TRUE?

Linguists have grouped the distinct human languages into about _____ language families.

When deciding between playing a lottery with an 80% chance of winning $4,000 or receiving $3,000 outright,most people choose the _____ because of the _____.

Early efforts to teach chimpanzees language failed miserably because:

Sci-fi fans can easily classify a new character in a movie as an alien,despite the fact that aliens come in all shapes and sizes.This ability is BEST predicted by:

_____ reasoning is the process of figuring out what to do in a given situation.

Emotional reactivity was measured by the galvanic skin response in healthy participants and participants with prefrontal cortex damage as they engaged in a gambling task.Compared with the healthy volunteers,the participants with prefrontal cortex damage:

Which statement illustrates the use of a function morpheme?

Because they are older when they begin to learn English,Chinese preschoolers adopted into North American families begin to use English content and function morphemes at around the same time as do preschoolers who are not adopted.