Exam 37: Cognition and Intelligence: Imagery, Concepts, and Language

Chomsky believes that we do not learn all the sentences we might ever say,but rather we actively create them by applying _______ rules.

The subjective,personal meaning of a word or concept is its _______ meaning.

The Stroop interference task,which involves a person naming colors that are printed in a different color ink,illustrates the effects of

When we group together all cars,regardless of the make of an individual car,because they share common characteristics or attributes,we are using

Semantic problems would be LEAST likely to occur

Rules by which a simple declarative sentence may be changed to other voices or forms,such as past tense or a passive voice,are called _______ rules.

The type of images that are created from muscular sensations and are especially important in music,sports,dance,and martial arts are called _______ images.

Mental imagery can involve all of the following EXCEPT

Regarding animal communication,which of the following statements is FALSE?

Thinking involves the manipulation of three basic forms of thought,which are

Your image of a bakery may also include its delicious odor.This shows that which of the following involves more than pictures?

To answer the question,"Does a frog have lips and a stubby tail?" most people

Lonnie is an architect,who must add a new building on an already crowded college campus.To generate the most original solution to this problem,he will

If a robin is an ideal model of a bird,then a robin would be considered a prototype of this concept.

The symbols we call words are built out of

When you form a mental image of "a flower," the brain area where memories are stored sends signals back to which brain area in order to create that image?

Acceptance into the nursing program requires that you have successfully completed eight hours of anatomy and physiology and three hours of college algebra and have an overall 3.0 grade point average.Your acceptance into the nursing program would be considered a _______ concept.

Like English,Kuuk Thaayorre,the language of the Cape York Australian aboriginals,has words for "north," "south," and so on;but unlike English,Kuuk Thaayorre lacks words for "left" and "right," which are considered which type of directional reference?

Mental images tend to be flat,like photographs.

Rearranging words almost always changes the meaning of a sentence,which illustrates the importance of