Exam 9: Language and Thinking

Recent brain imaging studies examining sex differences during a language task indicate that:

In every language, there are rules that determine how phonemes can be combined to create morphemes. These rules are called:

According to research, a person at what age would have the easiest time learning and effectively mastering a second language?

Consider the following word: "ch_ck". Since you work on an egg farm, you assume that the word is "chick". This is an example of

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 ________.

The term "belief bias" specifically refers to our tendency to:

Our tendency to prove or validate beliefs that we already hold instead of looking for evidence to disprove our assumptions is called:

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

Typical and familiar members of a particular class by which many of our concepts are defined are called:

Inductive reasoning is to deductive reasoning as

The four stages of the problem-solving process are:

The position that language not only influences but determines what we are capable of thinking is known as the:

The surface structure of a language refers to the ways that symbols are combined within that language, while the underlying meaning of these combined symbols is considered ________.

The errors in logic that occurred in response to the "Linda the feminist bank teller" problem are best explained and interpreted by the _.

Men often show more severe aphasic responses than women to a stroke in the left hemisphere. Why might this be the case?

Morphemes are the smallest unit of sound that can be recognized as separate in a language.

Words such as "tree," "water skiing," and "assertive" are considered to be the fundamental units of semantic memory and are all examples of:

According to the availability heuristic, we often base our probability decisions on:

Many concepts are difficult to describe in words, but we often can define them using typical and familiar members of a particular class called:

Mental blueprints or step-by-step scripts for selecting information and solving specialized classes of problems are called: