Exam 9: Section 4: Language and Thought

Instead of being spontaneously generated, insightful solutions appear to be the result of incremental unconscious processes.

While they are speaking, people with Wernicke's aphasia appear not to suffer from any language deficits.

It is possible for a sentence to obey grammatical and syntactical rules but be devoid of semantics.

The average 1-year-old has a vocabulary of 10 words.

Human infants can distinguish among all of the contrasting sounds that occur in all human languages.

Today, most cognitive psychologists believe that language and thought are largely synonymous.

Both prototypes and exemplars are used when forming categories and concepts.

It is more likely that Brutus is a steroid user and an athlete than simply a steroid user.

A heuristic is a well-defined sequence of steps that guarantees a solution to a problem.

Deaf babies will not begin to babble until they are taught an alternative means of communication, such as American Sign Language.

Family resemblance theory is useful for categorizing people as belonging to the same or different families, but it contributes little to our understanding of other categories.

Approximately one-third of the morphemes used in human language are function morphemes.

The sentence "The childs runned through the house" suffers from a lack of semantics.

Language is a set of rules that specify how the units of grammar are combined to produce meaningful messages.

Bilinguals have increased gray matter density in the prefrontal cortex relative to monolinguals.

The first step of means-ends analysis is to find a similar problem with a known solution.

Frequency monitoring appears to be a basic biological capacity instead of a learned skill.

The availability bias is an example of a heuristic.

The tendency to perceive the functions of objects as fixed or unchanging can be an impediment to effective problem solving.

When we engage in analogical problem solving, we attempt to solve a problem by finding a similar problem with a known solution and applying that solution to the current problem.