Exam 8: B: Language and Thought

Max started saying words fairly reliably a few months ago, but recently there has been a dramatic increase in the number of words that he produces. It seems like every day there are a few new ones in his vocabulary! Everywhere he goes, he points at things and wants to know the names for everything. What age range is Max likely in?

What is the mayor of your town using if he suggests that only irresponsible citizens will be against a proposed tax increase to upgrade city parks?

How would Chomsky most likely explain a young child saying, "I runned around the house?"

What is reflected in the "gambler's fallacy"?

What is the same between the two sentences "Ari hit Boris" and "Boris hit Ari"?

If you know that a family has four children, and you are using the representativeness heuristic, which of the following configurations would you expect in that family?

Which of the following is least likely to be one of the first words a child would learn?

Ella and her team are struggling to come up with a way to promote a new product in an advertising campaign. They seem to have hit a barrier in their discussions and they are not able to make decisions or solve immediate problems. Ella suggests that they all go home and 'sleep on it', and start fresh the next day. What is a likely benefit of Ella's suggestion?

What is the primary barrier that prevents chimpanzees from learning to speak?

Why do cognitive psychologists focus on the mistakes that people tend to make in decision making?

Which unifying theme in psychology is the linguistic relativity hypothesis most consistent with?

When an infant produces repetitive consonant-vowel combinations such as "babababa," what is the infant doing?

If Hayley uses the example of her nephew Alex to estimate this boy's age, what has influenced her estimate?

Ashley has just had her first-ever flat tire. She realizes that she needs to find where the spare tire and the jack and other tools are stored in the car, remove the flat tire, and install the spare tire. Which heuristic is Ashley using to approach the problem?

Which theorist suggested that children learn language through imitation, reinforcement, and shaping?

A family of 47-year-old Dad, 38-year-old Mom, 15-year-old Jonah, and 8-year-old Kenny adopt 7-year-old Roberto from Guatemala. According to research on bilingualism, which member of the family will likely be most successful in learning Spanish from Roberto?

In the statement "First the oven was preheated to 350 degrees," how many morphemes are in the word "preheated"?

Which of the following represents an occurrence of overregularization?

In order to decide which car to buy, Jaleel makes a list of desired qualities and rates each of the cars he is considering on a scale of one to ten. After totalling the points each car receives on all the desired qualities, he is going to purchase the car with the most points. Which decision-making strategy is Jaleel using?

If you estimate the probability of an event based on how similar it is to the prototype of that event, which heuristic are you using?