Exam 9: Language and Thought

Recent research conducted at the University of Georgia found that bilingual students scored higher than did their monolingual peers on:

Winawer and colleagues (2007)presented English and Russian speakers with a blue sample stimulus.They also were shown two blue comparison stimuli.One comparison stimulus matched the shade of the sample stimulus,and one comparison stimulus was of a different shade.Participants were asked to identify which of the two comparison stimuli matched the sample stimulus.This research found that:

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

Japanese can be written in two ways: One way uses symbols to represent speech sounds,much like the English language.The other way uses pictographs to represent ideas,much like the Chinese language.Japanese individuals with Wernicke's aphasia demonstrate great difficulty understanding:

People think that two events are more likely to occur together than either event is likely to occur individually.This phenomenon is called the:

According to research,damage to _____ is associated with risky decision making and insensitivity to the future consequences of behaviour.

The grey matter in the _____ lobe is denser in people who are bilingual.

Japanese can be written in two ways: One way uses symbols to represent speech sounds,much like the English language.The other way uses pictographs to represent ideas,much like the Chinese language.Japanese individuals with Broca's aphasia demonstrate great difficulty understanding:

The left brain hemisphere is primarily involved in forming prototypes,and the right brain hemisphere is mainly active in recognizing exemplars.

When a child says,"Nobody like me," his parents typically:

Fast mapping occurs with:

When presented with a problem,the FIRST step in means-ends analysis is to:

Bilinguals have increased grey-matter density in the prefrontal cortex relative to monolinguals.

Early flawed studies on bilingualism indicated that,when compared with monolingual children,bilingual children performed more _____ on language processing tasks and/but had _____ IQs.

A concept CANNOT be a(n):

Individuals with prefrontal cortex damage engaged in a risky gambling task will NOT show emotional arousal:

The first step of means-ends analysis is to find a similar problem with a known solution.

The _____ theory is the classical view that we make decisions by determining how likely something is to happen,judging the value of the outcome,and then multiplying the two.

If Jackie's prototype of science is physics,she MOST likely will exclude _____ from her category of science.

Quinn just turned 1 year old and has a spoken vocabulary of 15 words.Which statement about Quinn's language development is TRUE?