Exam 8: A: Language and Thought

When Alaina is working on her bicycle, she brings her entire tool kit out on the driveway and starts pulling wrenches from the tool kit at random, trying them until she finds one that fits. What type of approach is Alaina using?

What type of problem are you solving if you reorganize the letters "OSHOT" to form an English word?

What occurs when the word "able" is changed to the word "table"?

When are people much more likely to take risks, according to Kahneman and Tversky?

What is subjective utility?

Which of the following words has the same number of morphemes as the word 'unbeliever'?

Which of your text's unifying themes is illustrated by interactionist theories of language development?

Car A has good mileage, a low price, and low maintenance, or three pluses. Car B has only a low price and low maintenance, or two pluses. So, I'll choose Car A. What does this example illustrate?

Anika has just started to understand the idea that events can happen in the future. Now, when she talks about things she is going to do tomorrow or next week, she uses the future tense, rather than the present tense. Which theory would be supported by this development in Anika's language skills?

Which of the following statements is least accurate?

What is predicted by the linguistic relativity hypothesis?

You flip a fair coin ten times. Each time it comes up heads you get 10 cents. Each time it comes up tails you lose 5 cents. What is your expected value for each flip of the coin?

What is functional fixedness?

During the 1950s and 1960s, creative new ways of measuring mental processes paved the way for the cognitive revolution. Which of your text's unifying themes does the development of new research methods helps to illustrate?

Vivian has forgotten the last digit of her locker combination. She carefully tries every number in order until she finds the one that works. What is Vivian using in this case?

Two-year-old Owen rushes into the kitchen and tells his sister: "Baby throw. Baby bad." He wants her to know that his baby brother is bad because he just threw his toys on the floor. What does Owen's communication illustrate?

What do social communication theorists emphasize about interpersonal communication?

Overextensions are more common in children's production of words than in their comprehension of words. What does this imply about the use of overextensions?

According to Pinker and Bloom, how many generations would it have taken for Neanderthals to become extinct if the acquisition of language produced a 1percent difference in mortality rates among overlapping Neanderthal and human populations?

Why was the study of cognition discouraged during the first half of the 20th century?