Exam 8: B: Language and Thought

Your father has a problem; what to get your mother for her birthday.He mentally reviews her reaction to presents he has given her in the past (a necklace,concert tickets,an ice cream maker).If he decides to get her tickets to the theatre because she seemed to like a fun night out more than the other items,which approach to problem solving would your father be using

According to Simon's theory of bounded rationality,why do humans tend to make irrational decisions

Tasha is deciding whether to buy Car A or Car B.She knows three people who have the same model as Car A.Two of them don't like the car and the third friend loves it.Tasha decides to not buy Car A because 2/3 of her friends don't like the car.According to your text,what is Tasha relying on

Barriers to effective problem solving,such as functional fixedness and mental sets,best reflect which unifying theme in psychology

What do we call the tendency to think of a hammer as only a tool to hammer nails and not as a weapon,a lever,or a weight to prop open a door

Todd is outgoing,charming,creative,and has a beautiful singing voice.If you were asked to guess what Todd does for a living,and you used the availability heuristic and the conjunction fallacy as you generated your answer,which of the following would you suggest

What does it mean that there are optimal periods for the development of language and even times during which learning is critical

When is the trial-and-error approach to problem solving most effective

Which statements does NOT accurately describe the ability of animals to acquire language

Which child is exhibiting underextension

Which of the following best describes the discrimination ability of three-month-old infants

Which of the textbook's unifying themes do interactionist theories of language development best reflect

Which of the following is the best example of overregularization

Which of the following is an example of the statement that "language is symbolic"

In what age range do infants typically say their first word

What is least likely to be one of the first words a child would learn

The probability of being in a subcategory (e.g.,university professors who are politicians)cannot be higher than the probability of being in the broader category (e.g.,university professors).What kind of fallacy do people routinely fall victim to as a result

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

Some languages have a single colour name that includes both blue and green.What impact does this have the speakers

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