Exam 9: Language and Thought

If categories are formed using family resemblance:

Which categories do people across the world, in diverse cultures, seem to think about in the same special ways?

The term ____________________ refers to the repetition of vowel sounds like "oooh" and "aaah" made by young infants.

By twenty-four months of age, children have developed a vocabulary of about:

Explain why heuristics are important as decision-making tools, even if they sometimes result in errors in logical reasoning.

Which of the following is NOT an argument against the idea language developed as an adaptation?

Compare and contrast the defining features and family resemblance views of categorization.

"Rules of thumb" that are usually quick but which do not guarantee a problem solution will be found, are called:

When individuals start at the goal state and move toward the current point in the problem, they are using the problem-solving heuristic known as:

Last Halloween, four-year-old Clarice called the decorations at her house "punkins." This year, she is able to say "pumpkins" when she describes them.In this instance, Clarice has made a gain in her use of:

Ann looked at the rocks near the top of the rock wall and visually followed the series of footholds from the top, until she had an idea about which way she should start climbing up the wall.Ann used the problem-solving approach known as:

Cassie knew that her radio only worked if it was by her window in her high-rise apartment.When her cell phone wasn't getting a signal in a big office building, she tried moving to the window to improve reception.Cassie's problem solving strategy is characteristic of:

Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding language development?

Babies generally start babbling:

In studies in which researchers have attempted to teach apes to use a variety of sign languages:

The average speaker of English knows and uses somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 phonemes.

With respect to spoken language, phonology refers to:

The rules for combining words to make sentences are part of a language's:

Which of the following is NOT an example of a problem-solving heuristic?

In early studies of language acquisition in chimpanzees, researchers tried to teach chimps to speak.These studies were discontinued when researchers concluded that: