Exam 8: B: Language and Thought

Which statement provides evidence that receptive and productive vocabularies are different in young children

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

When your classmate says,"I never thought I'd say this,but I really enjoyed taking that psychology exam," which property of language does his statement best illustrate

If you are using the availability heuristic,what are you using to estimate the probability of an event

Which hypothesis is supported if a culture that has no word for the colour pink cannot quickly perceive the difference between pink and another colour

Which class of problems (as described by Greeno)involves discovering the relations among the parts of the problem

Many problems can be represented in a variety of ways,such as verbally,mathematically,or spatially.Keeping this in mind,which problem-solving approach hinges on this fact

Tina and Steph are both trying to decide whether to try a new diet.Tina reads that 30 percent of people lose significant amounts of weight on the diet,whereas Steph reads that 70 percent of people fail to lose significant amounts of weight.What differs between these two pieces of information

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

Kahneman and Tversky found in their study of decision making that people often deviate from rational thought when making decisions.What is one of the factors which dramatically affects our decisions

According to definitions in your textbook,when people decide to place bets on horse races,games of chance,and athletic events,what are they doing

What are the smallest units of meaning in a language

What is reflected in the "gambler's fallacy"

At dinner,three-year-old Matias overhears his father tell the waitress that his tasty hamburger was "superb." Matias has never heard this word before.The next day Matias tells his mother that the grilled-cheese sandwich she made him for lunch was superb.What do we call the process by which Matias likely learned the word "superb"

People often find it difficult to solve a problem by using a familiar object in a novel way.What is this called

According to evolutionary psychologists,what is the human mind designed to handle

Alexis has been diagnosed with a learning disability.She doesn't believe that the psychologist was accurate in this diagnosis,so she decided to seek out additional information about the disability,and its rate of misdiagnosis.She finds several websites and a couple of books that suggest that the diagnosis for the particular disability is wrong 20 percent of the time.Alexis is confident that hers is a case of misdiagnosis,and even after getting three additional evaluations from other diagnosticians (who all agree with the original diagnosis),Alexis refuses to believe otherwise.What does this example illustrate

Which task is involved in analogy problems such as "Dog is to puppy as cat is to ____"

Which statement is most consistent with the effects of framing on decision making

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