Exam 8: Cognition and Language

According to the Stroop effect,you would be likely say,"__________" if you were asked to name the color of ink of the word yellow written in blue ink.

Expert chess and average chess players look at a chess board for a few seconds and try to memorize the location of the chess pieces.Under what circumstances,if any,will the expert chess players show much better memory than the others?

What is a prototype?

Although other species have the ability to communicate,only human languages have the property of productivity.

People who rely on the representativeness heuristic tend to overlook which kind of information?

The sequence of words as they are actually spoken or written is called the ____ of language.

The ability to understand sentences such as "This store sells horse shoes,and that store sells alligator shoes" depends on our

Our best evidence for the importance of early development in human language learning is the fact that

During reading,the eyes alternate between fixations and saccades.Reading--in the sense of understanding the words--occurs during

The tendency to look for evidence supporting one particular hypothesis and not considering other possibilities is known as the

Following extensive training,the use of symbols by common chimpanzees has failed to show the flexibility of human language.Greater success has been demonstrated in studies using

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of "parentese?"

How many fixations per second does a typical reader have when reading an average page of text?

Strategies for simplifying a problem or for guiding an investigation are called __________. heuristics

Deaf children living with other deaf children or parents willing to learn sign language who cannot hear well enough to learn speech,and who never see anyone using sign language,will typically

What are algorithms?

At about what age do most children start saying two-word phrases such as "more page"?

Suppose you have been asked to find as many prime numbers as possible.(A prime number is one that cannot be evenly divided by any smaller integer other than 1. )You know that it is impossible to test all the positive integers,so you devise a strategy for testing only certain numbers that you guess might be primes.Your way of solving this problem makes use of

Transformational grammar,is a system for converting a deep structure into a surface structure.

"Change blindness" refers to the phenomenon that