Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Creativity

An Acapulco, Mexico, hotel attempted to reassure tourists that its water is safe to drink by posting a sign reading, "The Manager Has Personally Passed All the Water Served Here." This sign illustrates how translating languages can cause __________ problems.

Darby is a psychologist who studies concept formation, pattern recognition, memory, decision making, and different types of thought. Darby is most likely a(n)__________ psychologist.

If 98 out of 100 people respond "Golden Retriever" when asked to name what dog best represents the concept "dog," then a golden retriever would be called a

Insight tends to be based on

The stage of creative thought during which the solution is critically evaluated is the __________stage.

Juan is a minority child, who does not speak English at home, and attends school in an English-only classroom. Juan will most likely

Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Blink , usually refers to our immediate, intuitive reactions to short segments of experience as

The stage of creative thought during which large amounts of information relevant to the solution are assembled is the __________ stage.

If you have ever been without a screwdriver and took out a dime and used it to loosen the screw, then you did not let functional fixedness be a barrier to your problem solving.

The basic speech sounds of a language are called morphemes.

A cook does not have any clean mixing bowls and has no way to wash them. If this cook fails to see that he could use a frying pan or part of his double boiler as a mixing bowl, he is exhibiting which barrier to problem solving?

A core sentence, such as "The man rides the horse," can be changed into past tense ("The man rode the horse")or into a question ("Did the man ride the horse?"). This illustrates

In his study of thinking, Duncker found that the first step in problem solving based on understanding is to discover a set of rules that lead to the solution.

Thinking in which a general rule or principle is gathered from a series of specific examples, for instance, inferring the laws of gravity by observing many falling objects, is called __________ thinking.

Which of the following statements about signing and American Sign Language (ASL)is FALSE?

The illumination stage of creative thought

You go to the new ice cream parlor that has 48 different flavors of ice cream and 20 different toppings. According to behavioral economist Dilip Soman, having all these choices

Define cognition; differentiate between experiential processing and reflective processing; explain which type of processing planning requires; and identify and briefly describe the three basic units of thought.

Which of the following refers to processing a mental representation of a problem or situation?

Regarding bilingual education, which of the following statements is FALSE?