Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

When a child utters the word "mama," it may signify meanings as varied as "There goes Mama," "Come here, Mama," and "You are my Mama." Such single words used by children to express complex meanings are known as _____. 

_____ is the capacity to communicate information about events and objects in another time or place. 

Which of the following statements is true of communication by nonhumans?  

According to Louis Thurstone,__________are the eight specific factors that make up intelligence. 

Identify a criticism about the linguistic-relativity hypothesis. 

Patricia, a three-year-old girl, is having dinner. She looks at her father and says, "I eated food." In this scenario, Patricia is exhibiting _____. 

According to__________, language acquisition involves the interaction of environmental influences and the inborn tendency to acquire language. 

Unlike babbling, crying and cooing are inborn and prelinguistic. 

According to the linguistic-relativity hypothesis, language does not affect the way we perceive the world. 

The _____ is the view that language structures the way we view the world. 

Susan, an astronomer, studies the nature of stars and has contributed significantly to the understanding of the laws that govern their behavior. In this scenario, Susan is exhibiting _____. 

According to Noam Chomsky,__________is an underlying set of rules for turning ideas into sentences. 

_____ is defined by the ability to cope with novel situations and generate many possible solutions to problems. 

Which of the following statements is true of thinking?  

Identify a true statement about problem solving. 

According to the representativeness heuristic, people make judgments about events according to:  

A(n)__________shows the intellectual level at which a child is functioning. 

In psycholinguistic theory, the__________is a neural "prewiring" that facilitates a child's learning of grammar. 

In the context of problem solving, _____ involves dealing simultaneously with two or more elements of the problems. 

Christopher is skilled at problem solving and possesses broad reasoning abilities. According to Charles Spearman, Christopher's abilities are indicative of _____.