Exam 9: Language and Thinking

While researchers have long debated whether animals can acquire language, more recent research has clearly demonstrated that at least chimps are capable of acquiring it like humans.

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

Part of what makes human beings unique is that we are able to think better and communicate more effectively than other animals do. The images, ideas, concepts, and principles that we use to transfer ideas and skills to one another are called

Which of the following aspects of human language has the strongest support in primates?

Damage to brain regions involved in perception usually also disrupts people's ability to form mental images. This evidence supports the idea that mental imagery is based ________.

As an English speaker, you recognize that if you want to put a verb into the past tense you can add an 'ed' to it, such as changing 'walk' to 'walked'. The rules governing this type of transformation are known as

Your knowledge of what to expect when you go to the dentist is an example of a(n) __________.

Kirima moved to Germany with her parents and little brother Leif when she was 13 and Leif was 4. Ten years later, both Kirima and Leif speak German and English, but Leif is more fluent with German than is Kirima and he has no accent in either language. This

All of the following were discussed as factors that can interfere with the correct application of deductive reasoning EXCEPT

Phoneme is to morpheme as ________.

Which of the following does NOT aid students in judging metacomprehension and enhancing academic performance?

Evidence for structure when primates use human language is ________.

"If all birds are warm-blooded, and if all canaries are birds, then all canaries are warm-blooded." This is an example of a(n) __________, which is a(n) __________ argument.

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

Following a car accident, Mr. Jones had severe damage to Broca's area. At the hospital, the brain scan is most likely to show damage to ______ and he will have ______.

Which of the following is a hallmark of creativity?

According to Tversky and Kahneman, the errors in logic that occurred in response to the "Linda the feminist bank teller" problem (where participants think it is more likely that Linda is a feminist bank teller than simply a bank teller) are due to the fact that they confused

When we reason from general principles to a conclusion about a specific case, we are engaging in

The fact that language-deprived children are generally unable to acquire normal language skills when they are found past puberty was presented as evidence of

Suppose there was a language that had only two words for precipitation, and that one of those words was for rain and the other for snow. If it was found that people who spoke only that language had difficulty discriminating among mist, drizzle, rain, freezing rain, hail, ice pellets, snow, and other forms of precipitation, then that finding would support the