Exam 8: Language and Thought

According to Pinker and Bloom (1992),if the acquisition of language produced a 1% difference in mortality rates among overlapping Neanderthal and human populations,Neanderthals would have become extinct in

According to Simon's theory of bounded rationality,people tend to use

Skinner suggested that children learn how to construct grammatical sentences as a result of

Jenna is 14 months old and uses only "bottle,no,up,bye-bye,mama,and dada" when she talks.However,when the family is on their way to visit Jenna's grandmother,and her father tells Jenna to get her blue bunny from the bedroom and bring it with her,Jenna quickly runs to get the bunny.This episode demonstrates that

In language development,babbling refers to producing

A toddler's vocabulary grows rapidly between 18-24 months,as children engage in ____________________,or mapping a word onto an underlying concept after only one exposure.

When people rely on the recognition heuristic,they infer that alternatives that are recognized have a higher value than alternatives that are not recognized.

During the first half of the 20th century,the study of cognition was discouraged because

The representativeness heuristic refers to our tendency to

You can't think of a single instance when Cathy helped you out,and so you decide that Cathy must be an ungenerous person.Your judgment is based on

The tendency to keep using the same strategy over and over again when trying to solve a problem is known as functional fixedness.

You have a pair of pliers and a bag of nuts in the shell.You are lamenting the fact that you can't shell the nuts because you do not have a nutcracker.Your inability to perceive the pliers as a makeshift nutcracker demonstrates ____ on your part.

Critics of the research with Washoe and other chimps that were taught ASL focused on whether

Confirmation bias refers to our tendency to overestimate the likelihood of dramatic events.

Brett is trying to decide which graduate schools he will apply to.He is making up a list of all the positive and negative aspects he feels are associated with 100 different schools,and he plans to send applications to the 10 schools that score the highest when he adds up all the positive points and subtracts all the negative points.The decision strategy that Brett is using is referred to as

Joan was placed in charge of planning her sorority's spring formal dance.If she thought she should hire the same band that played at last year's dance because of how much everyone enjoyed the band,Joan could be considered to be encountering the ____ barrier to effective problem-solving.

Phonemes are the smallest units of ____ in a spoken language; morphemes are the smallest units of ____ in a language.

The linguistic relativity hypothesis is most consistent with the unifying theme in psychology that

Marisa is trying to decide between two computers that are advertised at the same price.Both computers are the same in most respects; however,computer A has a 2.5 GHz processor and 2 G of RAM,while computer B has a slower 2.0 GHz processor but 4 G of RAM.Because Marisa thinks that the speed of the processor matters more than the amount of RAM,she decides to buy computer A.In this case,Marisa has made her decision using

Noam Chomsky contended that