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AP Psych LANG Review 2
Test Description: Language and Thought Review
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1) According to Chomsky everyone has a _________ when they must learn a language
A
critical period
B
set date
C
sensitive period
D
time
2) According to the linguistic-relativity hypothesis
A
children are motivated to acquire language when their thinking abilities have developed
B
words hold different meanings in different cultures
C
we are born with an innate factor to develop a language
D
language itself structures the way we see the world
3) Framing is
A
a partial similarity among things that are different in other ways
B
greatly overestimating the likelihood of dramatic events occuring
C
putting to much faith in one's own estimates or beliefs
D
allowing a decision to be shaped by the context it is presented rather than exploring it from different perspectives
4) The tendency to perceive an item only in terms of its most common use is
A
mental set
B
functional fixedness
C
problems of inducing structure
D
problems of transformation
5) ______________occurs when people suddenly discover the correct solution to a problem
A
'aha' moment
B
insight
C
mental set
6) To go from the top to the bottom when solving a problem is
A
thinking logically
B
inductive reasoning
C
deductive reasoning
7) To go from the bottom to the top when solving a problem is
A
inductive reasoning
B
thinking logically
C
deductive reasoning
8) LAD was developed by
A
Lennerberg
B
Whorf
C
Chomsky
9) If all birds are warm-blooded, and if all parrots are birds, than parrots are warm blooded is an example of a
A
syllogism
B
deductive reasoning
C
algorithm
D
analogy
10) Children who are deprived of language early in life (a wild child) are unable to acquire normal language skills. This can be explained by
A
reaction range
B
linguistic relativity hypothesis
C
displacement
D
sensitive periods
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