Exam 12: Language and Thought

What are the main differences between System 1 and System 2 for thinking?

Logicians explain which deductions are valid by examining the reasoning from the premises to the conclusion, by a series of steps called a(n):

___________ refers to the application of cognitive neuroscience techniques to the study of decision making.

_________ bias refers to the tendency of people to draw conclusions based on their previous knowledge.

According to Popper, general statements can be definitely ___________ by a single observation, but they cannot be ___________.

What is the common linguistic ancestor of Latin and Sanskrit?

Describe Chomsky's theory of the language acquisition.

__________ intelligence is the ability to function well in one's environment.

Which of the following is the most basic way of representing problems developed by Newell and Simon?

_________ is a store of knowledge about the words of a language.

What is the 'segmentation problem' in spoken language comprehension?

Writing is to reading as ___________ is to ___________.

Which of the following statements regarding the fast system of thinking is INACCURATE?

What is a Universal Grammar according to Chomsky?

The heuristics of availability and representativeness rely on retrieval from memory and assessment of similarity, respectively.

Which brain area plays a crucial function in executive control?

Bilingual children, compared to monolingual children, show a greater ___________ awareness.

The Duncker's candle problem requires the breaking of functional fixedness to be solved.

Which of the following scientists is associated to the study of problem solving during the cognitive revolution of the 1950s?

The subdivisions of the semantic level of language include the _________ which relates to the word meaning, and ___________ which relates to how meaning depends on syntax.