Exam 9: Language and Thinking

Which of the following is NOT a component of wisdom?

Which of the following would be best considered an example of the imaginal mode of thought?

While playing one afternoon, a group of children decided to develop a special language only they would know. Jordan started working on the new symbols for their thoughts and behaviours. After writing quite an elaborate letter using his new symbols he gave it to the other children to try to decipher the message. To their dismay, the same symbols were used in very different ways and different symbols often represented the same idea. Jordan had violated one of the three critical properties of language because his language:

After the cooing stage comes the ________ stage. At this point, children _.

Jeff has been working on a particular problem for several weeks but he isn't making any progress on it. He decides to put the problem aside for a few weeks and return to it later. Which of the following problem-solving strategies is he using?

Many researchers believe that mental images, while not literally pictures in the mind, function in ways analogous to actual visual images. How does the research by Shepard and Metzler on mental rotation apply to this idea?

Research on the linguistic relativity hypothesis has revealed that language can determine how we think.

A psychologist has a theory that a certain mood disorder is largely due to a deficiency of the neurotransmitter ACS2. The psychologist believes that if the theory is correct then increasing the levels of ACS2 in people with that mood disorder will reduce their Symptoms of the mood disorder. To test that hypothesis, the psychologist conducts a well-designed experiment. This example best represents:

The fact that between 6 to 12 months of age, young children begin to differentiate the sounds of phonemes of their native language and lose the ability to differentiate the sounds of other phonemes that they were previously able to make, is best considered as an example of how:

How many morphemes are in the word "unquestionable"?

Professor Jones believes that language constrains the way in which we think. We cannot think of anything in complex terms if we do not have complex language. Jones apparently is a believer in

People typically believe that fires cause more deaths, but statistics reveal that drowning actually causes significantly more deaths than fire. Some researchers argue that we make this error because TV news programs show much more footage of fires than drowning, because fires are more exciting to televise. This presumably makes it much easier for us to call up examples of death by fire. This particular finding is best considered as an example of a judgment error caused by:

A mode of thought in which we seem to "hear" verbal sentences in our minds is referred to as imaginal thought.

Let's say that I ask you to tell me what you did last summer. You say that you took a trip to Europe. What property of language does your description of your trip illustrate?

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

A friend is trying to solve a problem and you have an idea about how to solve it. You translate your idea into words and tell the person your idea for solving the problem. You have transferred your idea from your mind to your friend's mind. In this example, your idea is considered an example of:

The 2-year old will speak using a sentence consisting of just a noun and a verb. This is referred to as

If you were solving a problem and wanted to guarantee that you reached the correct solution, it would be best to use

Sam is a grad student who often goes out for a drink with his friends on the weekend. He has begun to notice on these outings that as the night wears on and his friends have consumed more and more alcohol, their coordination becomes increasingly impaired. Based on these observations, Sam proposes that alcohol causes impaired coordination. As such, Sam is engaging in:

Consider the statement, "Last night, I shot an elephant in my pajamas." Since this sentence has at least two different interpretations (the pajamas could be worn by the person shooting the elephant OR they could be worn by the elephant), this means that this sentence has: