Thinking and Language

What do you call all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating?

• Heuristic
• Semantics
• Cognition
• Overconfidence

_____ will happen when speaking in the smallest distinctive sound unit if a language.

• Syntax
• Phonemes
• One-word
• Two-word

Syntax is

• what the government makes you pay for sinning
• the meaning of language
• smallest distinctive sound in a language
• the study of rules for forming admissible sentences

Who is B. F. Skinner?

• A psychologist who created the science called "radical behaviorism"
• A hockey player
• Father of psychoanalysis
• He developed theory of transformational grammer

What is Heuristic and what are the two types?

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• Ability to learn something on your own; Representative, Availability

What is a prototype?

• A mental image or best example of a catagory
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Which is a problem solving impediment?

• Overconfidence; tendency to be more confident than correct
• Functional Fixedness; thinking of things in multiple ways
• Functional Fixedness; thinking of things only in their usual functions
• Intuition; knowing or sensing something without the use of reason

What is the Framing Effect? 

• The way an issue is posed; can significantly alter our decisions and judgements
• Language determines the way we think
• The mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
• What you get when you work out a lot

What is the difference between Representative and Availability Heuristic

• Representative-deciding what will happen based on all the factors
  Availability-judging the likelihood based on how open you are to new ideas
• Representative-judging the likelihood of things by how well they represent prototypes, ignoring relevant info
  Availability-estimating the likelihood based on their availability in memory
• Representative-thinking based on one thing
  Availability-thinking based on multiple things
• Representative-electing representatives to rule our country
  Availability-how free you are to do what you want

Which stage in speech development occurs from about 1 to 2, and speech is mostly in single words?

• Babbling
• One-Word
• Two-Word
• Telegraphic