Exam 8: Thinking, Reasoning and Language

Which of the following words would present the most difficulty using phonetic decomposition?

Proponents of the imitation theory of language acquisition suggest that this model is the simplest for explaining the varieties of how children gain language skills. These theorists are banking on which principle of critical thinking to support their views?

Speed-reading programmes are popular because they are based on a scientifically-valid relationship that exists between reading speed and comprehension. When examining this relationship, however, we must remember which conceptual precept?

One explanation for schizophrenia holds that schizophrenic individuals have difficulty in filtering their attention. This is most closely related to the concept of

The textbook authors note that the word for mother in most languages begins with an "m" or "n" sound. They speculate that this may be because