Functional fixedness can become

an obstacle to solving problems

a concept for developing language

The representativeness heuristic helps people make decisions based on

the population that seems to apply to the problem

all the facts available in consicous thought

Most psychologists argue that chimpansees cannot truly speak a language because the animals cannot

combine symbols in orgininal, grammatically correct ways

respond to American Sign Language

Young children who have just learned grammar rules often

incorrectly use words that they had used correctly before

Studies suggest that biligualism

increases children's expertise in their native language

is more widespread in the US than in other countries

limits the number of words learned in a child's native language

The mental activity involved in communicating information is

the language acquisition device

Young children often exhibit the behavior of overextension, in which they

try to talk about more things than they have words for

try to walk before they ar physically able to do so

try to solve a new problem in the same way they have solved a similar one

A balance sheet may help in solving a problem by

helping a person visualize the best course of action

brainstorming all the possible solutions to a problem

helping a person work backward from the conclusion

Psychologists believe that a second language is most easily learned

once children start first grade

Prototypes make conepts easier to understand by allowing us to

picture a specific example of the concept

mentally group together objects that are similar

use shortcuts to solve a problem

A person's mental set tends to make him or her solve problems by

trying an approach that was successfully used with a similar problem

People tend to be overconfident of their reasonning because they

do not realize how flimsy their evidence is

ignore examples that conflict with their opinions

tend to bring about things they believe in

A morpheme generally consists of

letters that forma prefix or suffix

After scientists collect information to support a theory, they

can still never be sure that it is true in all cases

present their facts as definitive proof

use the information to prove the theory false

present a balance sheet of pros and cons of the theory

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functional fixedness

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Chapter 8 Thinking and Language

Unit of meaning in a language

Rule of thumb, or shortcut, used to solve a problem

Unit of sound in a language

Thinking about only the available facts to solve a problem

Tendency to think of an object as being used only for its usual purpose

Allows a person to solve a problem wihtout consicously working on it

Problem solving method that identifies goals and the steps needed to reach them

An example that best represents a particular concept

Applying a language's regular rules of grammar to all words, including words that do not fit the rule

Following many leads and using brain storming to solve a problem

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