Thinking and Language

What are phonemes?

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

What are morphemes?

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

Noam Chomsky believed that all humans are born with the ability to learn and acquire language. He calls this ability

• language acquisition device

• telegraphic speech

• linguistic determinism

• babbling stage

______________ are the smallest SOUND units in a language.

• Phonemes

• Morphemes

• Grammar

• Semantics

______________ are the smallest units that carry MEANING in a language.

• Phonemes

• Morphemes

• Grammar

• Semantics

______________ is the system of RULES of a language .

• Phoneme

• Grammar

• Syntax

• Morpheme

_________________ refers to the ordering of words in a sentence.

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Grammar

A(n) _________________ is a mental grouping of similar objects, events, states, ideas, and/or people, etc.

• heuristic

• algorithm

• concept

We often form concepts by developing prototypes, that is,

• mental images of the best example of a concept.

• algorithms that build step by step to a larger concept

• ideas about what is opposite in nature to the concept

Trial and error fails

• when perfecting an invention like the light bulb by trying a thousand filaments

• when there is a clear solution but trial and error might miss it forever

• when there is only one right answer