Exam 9: Language and Thinking

In the classic study on mental rotation,what did Shepard and Metzler find was the relationship between the speed that participants made judgments on whether two shapes were the same or different,and the degree of rotation?

Noam Chomsky proposed that humans are born with an innate biological mechanism which he termed _________ that contains the general grammatical rules common to all languages.

The four stages of the problem-solving process are:

The level of analysis beyond the level of the sentences such as examining conversations or paragraphs is known as:

That a language is ______________ means that its symbols can be combined in an almost infinite number of ways to provide meaningful statements.

The surface structure consists of the way symbols are combined within a given language.

Words such as "tree," "water skiing," and "assertive" are considered to be the fundamental units of semantic memory and are all examples of:

Shelley is attempting to solve a problem and at this point in time,she is trying to generate as many solutions as possible and to incorporate new and unusual ideas into her potential solutions.Which of the following best describes Shelley's thinking processes at this time?

In his research on bilingual speakers,Lambert found that:

The position that language not only influences but determines what we are capable of thinking is known as the:

The study of the practical aspects of language and how it occurs in a social context is known as:

The heuristic called ______________ involves identifying key differences between the current situation and the desired state and then taking steps to reduce or eliminate these differences.

Someone with _________ has a rich system of knowledge about the meaning and conduct of life.

General problem-solving strategies that often involve short-cuts and may or may not generate the correct answer are called:

The level at which sentences are combined into paragraphs or conversation is known as:

The problem-solving pitfall of a mental set was demonstrated most clearly in:

A system of knowledge about the meaning and conduct of life is known as:

Which of the following statements about science is most accurate?

An impairment in speech comprehension and/or production is known as ____________.

It is assumed that the availability heuristic sometimes results in inaccurate judgments by leading people to confuse probability judgments with how easy it is to call up information from memory.