Exam 9: Language and Thought

The term ____________________ refers to the rules of language that enable the communicator to combine symbols to convey meaning.

A theorist who says there are core features that category members share, but a given member may have some but not all of the features, is expressing which view?

During the Apollo 13 mission, the ground engineers had to devise a new way of cleaning the capsule air supply using only the materials the astronauts had on board the space capsule.They were able to come up with a creative solution that helped the astronauts make it back safely.In solving this problem, the engineers:

A space explorer has discovered life forms on an alien planet that can communicate, but the explorer decides the aliens don't really have a true language.This is because the alien's communication system lacks a set of rules collectively known as:

The view that language shapes how we think and how we perceive the world is called: