Exam 9: Language and Thinking

According to the text,the development of language made it easier for humans to adapt to the:

Your friend was raised in Hong Kong and speaks fluent Chinese.It might not be surprising that he was able to grasp many mathematical principles at an early age because of the symbolic nature of the Chinese language.This situation would be consistent with the:

Rules that govern the order of words are called:

The concept of overconfidence is most closely associated with which of the following concepts?

Propositions,which are the basic units of semantic memory that form the mental categories into which we place objects,activities,and abstractions,are created by combining _________________.

When processing language,males use both hemispheres of their brain more than females.

Despite their original intentions,researchers working with the chimp __________ eventually concluded that chimpanzees are NOT capable of exhibiting true language.

Researchers have found that _________ in many different areas all rely heavily on the use of __________ to guide problem solving in their fields.

Experts depend on their _____ memory because they rely on learned _____.

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

You are deciding how you can make your favourite dessert taste even better.One possibility is adding more chocolate and another possibility is adding more cream.This example represents the _____________ stage of problem solving.

The first step in problem solving involves understanding the nature of the problem.

Which happens more frequently: death by asthma or death by tornadoes? People typically believe that tornadoes cause more deaths,but statistics reveal that asthma actually causes significantly more deaths.Some researchers argue that we make this error because TV news dramatically publicizes deaths due to tornadoes,which presumably makes it much easier for us to call up these examples.This particular finding is best considered as an example of a judgment error caused by:

Research on whether there is a sensitive period for acquiring a second language suggests that there is:

Studies have shown that,overall,students are able to make very accurate judgments of how well they understand material they have read.

Proposition is to concept as:

Research on stroke victims suggests that females utilize the language function in:

A psychologist has a theory about how hunger influences the behaviour of rats and designs an experiment to test a specific if-then hypothesis such as,"If the rats are hungry,then they will run a maze more quickly." The hypothesis testing process in this example best illustrates ____________ reasoning.

One of the primary advantages of using a(n)_____________ to solve a problem is that if you use it correctly,it will always generate the correct answer.

You become a zookeeper's assistant,assigned to care for a gorilla,and decide to train him to use sign language.If you were a really good teacher,you might expect that he could learn up to several ___________ of words.