Thinking & Language II

What is the term for the early speech stage in which a child speaks using mostly nouns and verbs, omitting auxiliary words?

• Telegraphic speech

• Aphasia

• Grammar

• Intuition

Which brain area is primarily involved in speech production?

• Wernicke’s area

• Broca’s area

• Occipital lobe

• Hippocampus

What is the loss of ability to understand or express speech called?

• Intuition

• Aphasia

• Framing

• Overconfidence

Which area of the brain is associated with language comprehension?

• Broca’s area

• Wernicke’s area

• Cerebellum

• Amygdala

What is the smallest distinctive sound unit in a language?

• Morpheme

• Phoneme

• Grammar

• Syntax

What is the smallest unit of meaning in a language?

• Phoneme

• Morpheme

• Grammar

• Framing

Which term refers to the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences?

• Grammar

• Intuition

• Framing

• Overconfidence

What is the term for the mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to mind?

• Representativeness heuristic

• Availability heuristic

• Intuition

• Framing

Which heuristic involves judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent particular prototypes?

• Availability heuristic

• Representativeness heuristic

• Framing

• Overconfidence

What is the tendency to be more confident than correct called?

• Intuition

• Overconfidence

• Framing

• Belief perseverance