Exam 9: Language and Thinking

As an expert chef,Ben knows exactly how to make the best dish using whatever ingredients are available to him.Ben has a vast storage of knowledge that he has organized in his memory that enables him to quickly solve any cooking dilemma he might be faced with.This knowledge is organized in ________________.

Knowing how to politely interrupt someone who is speaking would be an example of pragmatics.

Gary has a beautiful house on the beach in Vancouver.When Gary drives to the office each morning he follows the coastline as he knows his office is directly south of his home and is also on the waterfront.He also uses the coast road to get to the dentist,the grocery store,and the post office.When his teenage son starts driving he immediately points out to Gary that he is driving an extra 6 miles a day when he takes the coast road to the post office.Gary missed the more efficient route due to his ______________.

Semantics is to syntax as:

While trying to learn what a "doggie" is,little Johnny looks at every animal he sees and compares it to his new puppy.If the animal is similar enough to his own puppy,then he decides it also is a puppy.Johnny's puppy serves as a _______________ for dogs.

Jeff has been working on a particular problem for several weeks but he isn't making any progress on it.He decides to put the problem aside for a few weeks and return to it later.Which of the following problem-solving strategies is he using?

Mental blueprints or step-by-step scripts for selecting information and solving specialized classes of problems are called:

Typical and familiar members of a particular class by which many of our concepts are defined are called: