Exam 9: Language and Thought

Individuals with prefrontal cortex damage engaged in a risky gambling task will show emotional arousal:

A syllogism is a form of reasoning in which:

The view that people make decisions by determining how likely something is to happen,judging the value of the outcome,and then multiplying the two is called:

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

Which example constitutes a single morpheme?

Category-specific deficits usually result when a person suffers damage to areas in the:

If language capacity is significantly impaired,other higher-executive cognitions necessarily will be impaired.

On average,patients with prefrontal cortex damage are less sensitive to the future consequences of their behaviour than are non-brain-damaged individuals.

The orderly series of linguistic milestones primarily is due to cognitive development.

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.These researchers found that participants:

According to prototype theory,if your prototypical bird is a wren,then the BEST example of a bird is a(n):

When Karen,a toddler,wants her mother to give her more juice,she says,"More juice," instead of saying,"Juice more." This way of expressing herself shows that Karen understands:

Hammers are used to pound things,which is why many people fail to realize that hammers also make perfectly good doorstops.This lack of creative insight is an example of:

The results of research with JB suggest that:

Deep structure refers to the meaning of a sentence.

Which statement about the limitations of language learning in apes is NOT true?

Grammar rules fall into which two categories?

The _____ involves making a probability judgement by comparing an object or event with a prototype of the object or event.

When we solve a problem by finding a similar problem with a known solution (and then apply it),we are engaged in:

A sudden flash of insight contrasts mostly with _____ problem-solving approaches in which one gets closer and closer to the end goal.