Exam 12: Language and Thought

According to Graham Wallas's (1926) four-stage theory of creativity, during incubation complex unconscious mental processes are:

What are the two models of language production presented in your textbook?

The underlying ____________ of all human languages is the same.

Much of the evidence for how speech production works comes from the study of:

___________ can explain our failures to grasp statistical concepts.

According to Simon (1982), human ___________ is bounded by limitations on cognitive resources.

Saying "the Lord is a shoving leopard" instead of "the Lord is a loving shepherd" is an example of:

Brain-imaging techniques confirmed the activation of Broca's and Wernicke's areas during language processing, but failed to identify additional brain areas.

Discuss the main views on the evolution of human language.

Which of the following groups of concepts CORRECTLY reports a general to specific semantic hierarchy?

Saffran (2003) showed that _________ infants were sensitive to statistical relations among syllables in streams of nonsense speech.

Which influential linguist argued that language is uniquely human and its development is independent from the development of animal communication systems?

Mental processes that lead to creative thoughts are similar to those that are found in expert _____________.

According to the __________ theory, when trying to solve a deductive reasoning, people build models of situations consistent with the premises and try to consider all possible ways of combining them.

Which of the following phases in the child's cognitive development is the last to occur according to Piaget?

Human vocal system is uniquely suited to producing the range of vocalizations used in human languages.

Arash grew up in an Iranian family in London, learning English and Farsi together. Growing up, Arash used English more often than Farsi. Arash's bilingualism is:

Describe the main classifications of bilingualism according to your textbook.

Which brain system identified by Goel (2009) deals with familiar and concrete material?

In research on thinking, __________ theories specify how people should behave to maximize their likely gains, while _________theories account for how people actually behave.