Exam 8: Thought and Language

When a writer or artist sits down to begin a new piece of work,the creator does not know what it will sound like when it is finished.This is a(n)_____.

Greta is an academic who studies how people come to understand meaning from words and how they are arranged.Greta area of study would be described as ___________.

A concept is the mental representation of an object,event,or idea.

The ability to communicate information about the past,future,and other locations is a unique property of ___________.

The "sensitive period" for language refers to:

According to classical categorization,people use _____ to decide if an object belongs to a specific category.

_____ are problem-solving strategies that provide a reasonable guess for the solution.

Miranda asks her teacher,"Can I go to the bathroom?" to which she replied,"I don't know,can you?" Miranda's teacher was purposely ignoring the ______________ of Miranda's question to make a point about grammar.

Based on _____,people judge something as more likely if it strongly represents a specific category.

Which of the following is most likely to be a basic level category?

One interesting property of ___________ is that we usually know when it is not being used correctly,but people often cannot explain exactly why.

What is fast mapping?

A group of interrelated concepts is a called a ____________.

The television character MacGyver was famous for using everyday objects to get out of trouble.In one episode,for example,MacGyver used the aluminum foil wrapper from a stick of gum to replace a blown electrical fuse.The MacGyver character clearly did NOT suffer from what cognitive obstacle to problem solving?

The concept of belief perseverance assumes that we are most likely to believe:

You are learning Russian in preparation for a trip next summer.You have gotten to the point where you can sound out the words written in the Cyrillic alphabet,but you do not understand what any of the words mean.What element of the Russian language will you need to start learning next?

Damage to the region of the cortex known as __________________ is most likely to produce difficulty speaking,but have relatively little effect on understanding speech.

In a research study, participants are told that Louis has lived in Boston his whole life. They are then asked which is more likely: A) Louis is a baseball fan, or B) Louis is a baseball fan who roots for the Boston Red Sox. Which of the following is true?

Frank mistakenly believes that there are more words that begin with the letter "k" than there are with the letter "k" in the third position due to __________________.

Compared to a heuristic,an algorithm is more likely to: