Cognition Test Review

Pablo vainly searches for a screwdriver while failing to recognize that a readily available coin in his pocket would turn the screw. His oversight best illustrates: 

• functional fixedness.
• the availability heuristic.
• belief perseverance.
• the representativeness heuristic.

Advertisers know that a thirty-three percent discount sounds like a better deal than a discount of one third.  This best illustrates:

• framing.
• belief bias.
• representativeness heuristics.
• confirmation bias.

Maintaining one's conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as: 

• the representativeness heuristic.
• belief perseverance.
• confirmation bias.
• functional fixedness.

In English, it is appropriate to refer to “a pretty bird,” but not to “a bird pretty.”  This best illustrates the importance of:

• syntax.
• semantics.
• morphemes.
• phonemes.

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CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

Which of the following is NOT included as part of today’s general definition of intelligence?

• the ability to solve problems
• nthe ability to use knowledge to adapt to new situations
• the ability to understand people and emotions
• the ability to learn from experience

Noam Chomsky’s theory of language acquisition holds that people have an inborn universal grammar that makes learning of language easy for children.  Which of the following statements is used as support for this theory?

• Children repeat words that they hear frequently.
• Regardless of the language learned, children tend to make similar errors of grammar when they first begin to learn language.
• Chimpanzees and other apes can easily learn language.
• Some children’s vocabularies are extensive, despite the fact that they may live in poor environments

To find Tabasco sauce in a large grocery store, you could systematically search every shelf in every store aisle. This best illustrates problem solving by means of: 

• the availability heuristic.
• functional fixedness.
• an algorithm.
• the representativeness heuristic.

_____________is the study of meaning in language

• Heuristics

• Semantics

• Algorithms

• Syntaxims

What are morphemes?

• Two or more words
• Smallest meaningful units
• Composed of many words (infinite)
• Basic Sounds

What are phonemes?

• Two or more words
• Smallest meaningful units
• Composed of many words (infinite)
• Basic Sounds