Dwight is writing a letter to his friend Jim. He wants his writing to sound impressive, so he uses a thesaurus function on his computer to change some of of the words. He changes the sentence ‘my character on the soap opera was killed’ to ‘my moral fibre on the soap opera was defeated’. Dwight has changed _____ of the sentence.

To understand the sequence of commands necessary to edit save and retrieve a computer file, people may use a ______ that consist of propositions such as ‘press the F10 key store the file in a place on the desk’ and ‘each file must have its own file name’ and so on

Dan took a pot his alarm clock in an attempt to repair it and now he has to put it back together. He forgot how the pieces were connected, so he tries fitting each piece with every other piece until he finds one that fits. Dan’s approach to problem solving demonstrates:

Jen was unable to learn language in her teens after being isolated without language until that time. Jen’s difficulty is evidence for a::

Which of the following is true with respect to cognitive maps?

After being trampled by platform shoes at a Kylie Minogue concert, Buffy wakes in the hospital and says to a nurse ‘watches playfully wrote pumpkins in the sky’. This doesn’t make sense because Buffy speech violates the rules of:

Call participated in an experiment in which she had to read a list of words that were the names of colours. Some of the words were printed in the same coloured ink as the word, others were not. For instance, sometimes the word blue was printed in blue ink and sometimes the word blue was printed in red, green or black ink. The researcher recorded the amount of time it took for her to read each word. Carla’s reaction time is likely to _______ when the word and ink of the same colour and _______ when they are different colours.

According to the textbook, the field of cognitive psychology focuses on all of the following, except:

An alien from another galaxy has landed on earth and is overwhelmed by the sensory import it must process. Eventually, the alien simplifies it thinking by categorising sets of experiences and objects according to their common features. In other words, the alien learns to form:

A computer programmer wants to study humans thought processes using a computer information processing model. He already knows that information processing systems do all of the following, except:

Vanessa walked into a party and said, ‘I just purchased a vehicle’. Most people in the room formed a mental image of a mid-size car. Apparently, a mid-sized car can be considered a _______ for the ______ concept called vehicle.

If you had a condition in which you could not detect a person’s tone or non-verbal cues, it would be difficult to assess the context of language. For example, if someone said ‘gee, you’re so smart!’ in sarcastic tone, you may Miss perceive their verbal slight as a compliment. This occurs because you would be relying on ______ processing of language.

Patrick is at Murphy’s pub when he sees a short man wearing a green suit, top out and buckled shoes. Also, the man is carrying a pot of shiny gold. Based on what Patrick knows about leprechauns and how they act, he assumes this fellow must be a leprechaun, too. Patrick has used a(n) ______ heuristic to make his inference.

The rules of semantics are most like ______ and the rules of syntax are most like ______.

The word ‘unhappy’ contains: