Exam 8: A: Cognition and Language

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Deaf children who don't get an opportunity to learn language when they are young can catch up later.​

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​What is the Stroop effect?

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Improving a skill by studying or practicing something very different from it is known as ____ transfer.​

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​Failure to detect changes in part of a scene is known as change ________.

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Compared to satisficers,maximizers tend to make better choices but be less pleased with their choices.​

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What is the difference between preattentive processes and attentive processes (other than the obvious fact that one requires attention and the other doesn't)?​

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Strategies for simplifying a problem or for guiding an investigation are called __________.​

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People who are easily distracted,impulsive,moody,and unlikely to follow through on their plans are said to have __________ disorder.​

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Research on the framing effect shows that people tend to choose the risky strategy when considering gains and avoid taking risks when considering losses.

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Talking on a cell phone distracts a driver,and so does listening to a passenger who is talking on a cell phone.

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A unit of sound is called a phoneme.A unit of meaning is a _____.

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In making decisions,searching only until you find something that is good enough is called _____.​

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Chimpanzees are unable to make the sounds that humans use in speech.

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​We read both during eye fixations and during the eye movements between fixations.

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Transformational grammar is a system for converting a deep structure into a surface structure.​

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If you are asked whether one object could be rotated to match another one,you say you answered it by picturing its motion in your head.What evidence did Shepard and Metzler produce to show that your process really is like watching something move?​

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If you can identify something immediately,regardless of how many distractors are present,you are relying on a(n)_________ process.​

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​Measurements of brain activity and examination of the chromosomes can aid in determining whether someone has attention deficit disorder.

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People who look at words find it difficult to say the color of ink of each word,instead of reading the words themselves.This result is known as the __________.​

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Old people who spend much time doing crossword puzzles improve their memory for activities of daily life.​

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