Psychology Final Chapter 10

Front 1

Something you are able to manipulate in a systematic or logical fashion describes a:

Back 1

mental image

Front 2

The findings from a study concerning subvocal speech in which one of the researchers was injected with curare indicate that:

Back 2

thinking is a mental activity independent of motor action

Front 3

An algorithm is:

Back 3

a specific procedure for solving problems

Front 4

When two-year-old Kevin says "more milk" when he obviously wants more milk now, the two-word response is called:

Back 4

condensed speech

Front 5

When Rosch examined reaction times to examples of different concepts,

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the more prototypical concepts were responded to at a faster rate

Front 6

Wernicke's aphasia leads to disruptions in:

Back 6

the ability to understand spoken and written language

Front 7

Which sentence about morphemes is correct?

Back 7

Not all morphemes are words

Front 8

Support for the human infants' genetically preprogrammed ability to organize and process speech is generated by data indicating that:

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early infants are able to distinguish speech and nonspeech sounds.

newborns move rhythmically in accordance with speech sounds.

three-day-old infants can distinguish their mothers' voices from a stranger

Front 9

Skinner agreed with Watson's idea of implicit speech; however, he called this type of response:

Back 9

convert behavior

Front 10

The fact that I can say the sentence "I want some root beer candy," even though I have never heard anyone say this, is an example of which criteria of human language?

Back 10

novelty

Front 11

You are taking a multiple choice algebra test. To find the correct solution to the problems, you begin substituting each answer given in the problem to see which makes the equation correct. What type of problem solving strategy are you using?

Back 11

trial-and-error

Front 12

According to association theory, when you encounter a new instance of a category, you respond to it on the basis of:

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stimulus generalization

Front 13

When we begin with a specific situation and then generate a general conclusion we have used:

Back 13

inductive reasoning

Front 14

Mental images are:

Back 14

representations of the spatial properties of real objects and one component of thinking

Front 15

A process that occurs when we are faced with an array of alternative choices and we must choose one option over the others is:

Back 15

decision making

Front 16

Thinking allows humans to:

Back 16

manipulate representations of objects.

use what they have learned.

solve problems without physical activity

Front 17

The second step to problem solving is to:

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generate possible solutions

Front 18

A tendency to respond to a new problem with an approach that was successful in the past is called:

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a mental set

Front 19

Psychologists who study thought are mainly concerned with thought as:

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a process of reasoning about something

Front 20

Even young infants are able to distinguish ________ from other sounds even when they are physically and acoustically almost the same.

Back 20

phonemes