Exam 8: B: Language and Thought

Research suggests that bilingual individuals tend to score higher than monolingual individuals on some psychological measures.Which pair tends to be higher for bilingual individuals

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

Cross-cultural variations have been found in problem solving.How do people from Eastern Asian cultures tend to solve problems

Rules exist that govern how words may be combined into phrases and sentences.What property of language is reflected by such rules

What is decision making

When subjects are asked to solve the nine-dot problem,they need to avoid applying which of the following to the problem

Which statement does NOT accurately describe bilingualism

When did the cognitive revolution in psychology occur

Which statement provides support for the linguistic relativity hypothesis

If given a choice between a "sure" thing and a "risky" gamble,what percentage of people did Kahneman and Tversky (1984)find would select the "sure" thing when the problem was framed in terms of lives lost

Who suggested that children are equipped with a language acquisition device (LAD)that allows them to acquire language

Because one of the main goals of playing the game Scrabble is to use a series of randomly selected letters to form words,Scrabble can best be described as a game that involves which type of problem

When your psychology professor used the word "experiment" to refer to the scientific method described in Chapter 2,which property of language was reflected by the term "experiment"

Which perspective on language acquisition can best explain a young child (whose parents speak grammatical English)saying,"Yesterday I goed to the zoo"

According to interactionist theories of language development,what is necessary for adult language production

Chimpanzees are intelligent primates and can develop some rudimentary language skills,albeit mostly evidenced through sign language and not speech.What is the primary barrier that prevents chimpanzees from learning to speak

Which of the following is a shortcut,or guiding principle,used in solving problems or making decisions

In Montreal,Laura-Ann Petitto has done some important research on babbling with normal and deaf babies.What has she found

Imagine you have a problem to solve that has some similarities to problems you have previously solved.If focusing on the similarities leads you relatively quickly to a solution,then which heuristic do you benefit from

Ross needs to move a couch up a set of stairs that turns a corner near the top.As he is thinking about the best way to go about this,he thinks about the position that the couch needs to be in when it turns the corner.That piece of information then anchors his decision about how to orient the couch at the bottom of the stairs.What does this example illustrate