Language Test

• belief perseverance

• confirmation bias

• framing

• the availability heuristic

• heuristics

Consumers respond more positively to ground beef advertised as “75 percent lean” than to ground beef described as “25 percent fat.” This illustrates that consumer reactions are influenced by

• the representativeness heuristic.

• the belief perseverance phenomenon.

• confirmation bias.

• the availability heuristic.

• framing.

Spoken, written, or signed words and the ways they are combined to communicate meaning constitute a.

• algorithms

• syntax

• heuristics

• language

• phonemes

Language refers to the

• smallest distinctive sound units.

• rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences.

• spoken, written, or signed words and the ways they are combined to communicate meaning.

• rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes.

• ways we think about solving problems and communicating those solutions, including framing the issues.

The smallest distinctive sound unit of language is a

• prototype

• phenotype

• morpheme

• phoneme

• babble

The various vowel sounds that can be placed between a t and an n produce words such as tan, ten, tin, and ton. These various vowel sounds represent different

• morphemes

• phonemes

• syntaxes

• algorithms

• heuristics

How many phonemes are in the word “bats”?

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

How many morphemes are in the word “bats”?

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

When Fred pronounced the words “this” and “that,” he noticed that they share a common

• prototype

• phenotype

• morpheme

• algorithm

• phoneme

English words are constructed from about ________ different phonemes.

• 5

• 6

• 26

• 40

• 200