Exam 8: Thinking, Reasoning, and Language

Which of the following is a dominant reading strategy by adults with good reading skills?

Juanita read the children's story No Such Things out loud while she was pregnant. Once her baby was born, Juanita noticed that she sucked on her pacifier much more when she would read No Such Things, relative to other stories. What is the best explanation for why this occurs?

It is possible to increase both our reading speed and comprehension, as long as our speed does not exceed __________ words per minute.

If people make a judgment based on how easy it is for an instance to come to mind, they may fall victim to the

Susan would like for her child to learn a second language. If she wants the child to be fluent in the second language, research suggests that she should begin instruction no later than what age?

Breaking down tasks into more manageable bits refers to using __________ to solve a problem.

Following elections, there are generally a lot of people who claim that it was obvious from the beginning that the winning candidate would be successful. This illustrates the

If there is a language delay in a child learning multiple languages at once, which of the following components of language is most likely to be delayed?

Which of the following is an example of top-down processing?

Which of the following techniques can be useful for reducing our tendency toward functional fixedness?

General cognitive processing theories for the acquisition of language emphasize the importance of

If you polled some friends from Edmonton, who read the local news on a regular basis, about the number of murders in their city, and you poll friends in other areas of the country about the number of murders in the entire province of Alberta, you'd likely find that the average number of murders estimated for Edmonton is more than for the entire province. This impossible finding is best explained by the

The view that language defines our thinking reflects what approach to language?

The heuristics that we use for decision making don't include all information, and can lead us to make errors. Why, then, do our brains use them?

According to the social pragmatics theory of language learning, what do children use to understand the topic of conversation or the name of an item?

Brain imaging research reveals that when we engage in some cognitive tasks, there is no activation of the language areas of the brain. This suggests that language is not necessary for some types of thinking. Which theory is rejected based on evidence like this?

Brain activation in the frontal and parietal lobes may help us to break free of mental sets because these regions help us to

By the end of the first year of life, an infant will generally

We often make assumptions about people based on stereotypes, which reflects our use of the __________ heuristic.

The sounds t, th, and sh are