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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
sensitive period
B
set date
C
time
D
critical period
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
language itself structures the way we see the world
D
we are born with an innate factor to develop a language
3) Framing is
A
a partial similarity among things that are different in other ways
B
putting to much faith in one's own estimates or beliefs
C
allowing a decision to be shaped by the context it is presented rather than exploring it from different perspectives
D
greatly overestimating the likelihood of dramatic events occuring
4) The tendency to perceive an item only in terms of its most common use is
A
functional fixedness
B
mental set
C
problems of inducing structure
D
problems of transformation
5) ______________occurs when people suddenly discover the correct solution to a problem
A
mental set
B
insight
C
'aha' moment
6) To go from the top to the bottom when solving a problem is
A
thinking logically
B
deductive reasoning
C
inductive reasoning
7) To go from the bottom to the top when solving a problem is
A
deductive reasoning
B
thinking logically
C
inductive 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
analogy
B
deductive reasoning
C
syllogism
D
algorithm
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
displacement
B
reaction range
C
linguistic relativity hypothesis
D
sensitive periods
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