Exam 12: Language and Thought

All the barmen are sportsmen. All the sportsmen are fun. Therefore:

In neuropsychology, double dissociations are used to argue for separation of function.

The three heuristic methods for making judgements proposed by Kahneman and Tversky in 1984 are: ______________.

On which aspect of language use (production or comprehension) have psycholinguists focused more?

What are the movements along the lines of text called?

Problem solving research has its origins in:

The fast system for thinking is also known as the ___________ system.

What are the two main aspects of language use?

The ______________ claims that the way a person thinks is affected by structural aspects of their language(s).

According to Graham Wallas's (1926) four-stage theory of creativity, when problems are hard to solve people tend to set them aside. This period of setting aside is known as:

What form of intelligence is wisdom most associated with?

Describe the two systems of thinking.

Why did the Linguistic Society of Paris ban debates on the evolution of language in 1866?

Which of the following statements regarding the slow system of thinking is ACCURATE?

Describe the two reasons behind Chomsky's claim that children get very poor evidence about the grammatical rules of their language.