Exam 9: Language and Thinking

Problem-solving techniques that involve the systematic application of formulas or procedures to generate correct solutions are known as __________.Though they are reliable,they tend to be very time consuming.

Speech segmentation was given as an example in your textbook of how ___________ is involved in understanding language.

While walking to class one day,Nadia is caught in a downpour.Knowing that without an umbrella or rain jacket her hair will be ruined,Nadia takes her psychology textbook and covers her head with it.This unconventional use of the textbook shows that Nadia has overcome _______________.

The confirmation bias can lead to this type of obstacle to problem-solving:

Evidence in support of apes' language abilities is strongest in terms of the __________ criterion of language.

The smallest unit of sound that can be distinctly recognized in a language is known as a:

When to speak another language,it can be difficult to hear the individual words in a native speakers' utterance.This is a problem with:

One method for researching mental imagery is to use ________.

Experts tend to rely on schemas to solve their specialized problems,and thus when solving a problem they make use of long-term memory where these schemas reside.In contrast,novices who don't have such schemas are forced to solve problems in their limited __________ memory.

Two types of metacognition are metacomprehension and metamemory.

The following two sentences: "The cat was chased by the dog" and "The dog chased the cat," have

The text discusses a problem where you assume that you have a drawer containing 19 single black socks and 13 single blues and you are asked to determine how many socks you must pull out in the dark in order to be sure of having a matching pair.This problem was presented to demonstrate how the belief bias can interfere with deductive reasoning.

The results of mental scanning experiments indicate that:

An impairment in speech comprehension or production is known as:

The basic units of semantic memory that form the mental categories into which we place objects,activities,and abstractions are called:

The ________________________ proposes that language influences and determines what an individual is thinking.

In terms of the properties of languages,displacement is to symbolic as infinite is to _____________.

According to the text,the best thing you can do to test your ideas is to attempt to disprove them.But people don't often do this because of a phenomenon known as ___________.

Two types of metacognition are __________ and __________.

The ability to produce something that is both new and valuable is referred to as _____________.