Exam 7: Cognitive Processes

__________ is the study of the relationship between language and the structure and function of the nervous system.

Your daughter is starting first grade, and you are trying to decide if you want to enroll her in an English-only school or in one of the new bilingual charter schools. After you review the neurolinguistics literature, which school will you choose and why? Justify your decision based neurolinguistic research evidence.

The two important language centers of the brain are __________.

What is the prognosis for recovery for individuals who have had a stroke and suffer from aphasia when they are right-hand dominant versus ambidextrous?

Which of the following individuals would have the best deductive reasoning?

The ability of Tarzan to develop speech after growing up in the jungle without any exposure to humans would be criticized by someone with the __________ view of language acquisition, because a child not exposed to language early on may miss the biological opportunity for language development.

The case of Ildefonso-who was born deaf and was language-less until the age of 27, when a community college interpreter taught him to communicate-supports the idea that human language is inseparable from __________.

"Language is a uniquely human ability." Evaluate this statement with respect to existing animal communication systems and provide research evidence for why the statement may be incorrect and why it may be correct.

Define and distinguish between two of the following obstacles to reasoning and problem solving: availability heuristic, representativeness heuristic, and confirmation bias. Explain how the obstacles you selected are unconscious shortcuts in problem solving that can produce errors in judgment.

When you fail to see that an object can be used in alternative ways, you are experiencing an inhibitor of problem solving known as __________.

Researchers (Meinzer et al., 2016) have found that __________ can help stroke patients with aphasia, as they were more accurate on naming tasks versus those who received a placebo.

According to the __________, different types of intelligence have evolved in humans so we can process different types of information. Furthermore, each person has a unique configuration and combination of these intelligences.

When solving a problem, individuals move through a series of steps to reach a solution, which is often then a starting point for a new problem. These steps form a __________.