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Chapter 7 part 2 (Peter Godipelly)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the most basic unit of sound?

a)

Phonemes

b)

Morphemes

c)

Decibel

d)

Syntax

2.

What is the most basic unit of meaning?

a)

Morphemes

b)

Phonemes

c)

Syntax

d)

Syllable

3.

What is an example of overextension?

a)

Referring to a lion,tiger, and leopard as a "kitty"

b)

A child has only one ball and there is no other

c)

I goed to the supermarket

d)

I saw a deer. There were so many deer there.

4.

What is an example of underextension?

a)

A child's ball is the only "ball" and no other sphere is a ball

b)

Referring to all felines as "kitty"

c)

I goed to the supermarket

d)

There was a deer. I saw so many deer.

5.

What is an example of overregularization?

a)

Tooths

b)

Horse

c)

Baker

d)

Euphemism

6.

What is holophrastic speech?

a)

Single word speech

b)

Two word speech

c)

Holographic speech

d)

Three word speech

7.

What is telegraphic speech?

a)

Two word speech

b)

Single word speech

c)

Three word speech

d)

Telegram speech

8.

What is an example of functional fixedness?

a)

Using a knife to cut beef

b)

Using a brick as a weapon

c)

Using a phone to cut some cheese

d)

Using a credit card to cut some beef

9.

What is a mental set?

a)

Tendency to do something in a way that has previously worked

b)

A method that has previously worked successfully

c)

A set of questions

d)

A guess-and-check method of solving

10.

What is a method of solving that is try and fail?

a)

Algorithm

b)

Mental Set

c)

Syntax

d)

Schema

11.

What is a schema?

a)

A social blueprint of how a situation should go

b)

The use that an item is supposed to have

c)

The previous 5 outcomes are supposed to affect the next outcome

d)

All of the above

12.

When thinking of dogs, I think of a border collie. What is the border collie?

a)

Prototype

b)

Example

c)

Functional Fixedness

d)

Mental Set

13.

I got heads 5 times in a row. I believe that the next time has to be tails. What is this?

a)

Gambler's fallacy

b)

Conjunction fallacy

c)

Logical fallacy

d)

All of the above

14.

I randomly got a joke I heard last period. What is this?

a)

Insight

b)

Mental Set

c)

Schema

d)

Algorithm

15.

I saw Jaws. When I went to the pool, I was afraid of a shark coming up. What is this?

a)

Availability Bias

b)

Representative Bias

c)

Confirmation Bias

d)

Insight

16.

I believe that vaccines cause autism. I see that an autistic kid has taken vaccines. I use this as evidence. What is this?

a)

Confirmation Bias

b)

Framing

c)

Prototype

d)

Theory of bounded rationality

17.

What thinking is outside of the box?

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Representative

d)

Logical

18.

What was MacGyver famous for breaking?

a)

Functional Fixedness

b)

My heart

c)

Mental Set

d)

Algorithm

19.

You can only make rational decisions based on what you know. What term is being described?

a)

Theory of bounded rationality

b)

Algorithm

c)

Prototype

d)

Metacondition

20.

Who stated that humans are set up to learn language and are superior to other creatures?

a)

Noam Chomsky

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Philip Zimbardo

d)

B.F. Skinner