After being trampled by platform shoes at a Spice Girls concert, Buffy awakes in the hospital and says to a nurse, “Watches playfully wrote pumpkins in the sky.” This doesn’t make sense because Buffy’s speech violates the rules of

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.

Cognitive psychology

Dr. Klarman studies how people receive information and make it meaningful.  Dr. Klarman is especially

 interested in how people communicate this information. Dr. Klarman studies topics in ____ psychology.

While playing a video game, you guide your character through a make-believe world, avoiding some

objects and picking up others, while responding to various events. This extremely rapid process of description, elaboration, decision, planning, and action illustrates

Describe. Elaborate. Decide. Plan. Act. These five functions form

Laverne works on an assembly line, spotting defective bottles. Recently, her performance has been poor

and her boss warns her that if she misses one more defective bottle, she will be fired. Laverne’s reaction time will ______________ because of the changed ______________.

Maggie is sitting in the square, reading her psychology textbook. From out of the blue, a monkey jumps

into her lap. Maggie’s reaction was slow. Which of the following concepts best explains Maggie’s slow reaction?

Lindsey is hooked up to a device that measures her brain wave activity. She is shown an image of her new car. When this information reaches her visual cortex, her brain waves should show which of the following?       

Pina was working a puzzle when the PET scan was performed. The PET scan indicated high activity in

Pina’s  frontal lobe. Which conclusion can we draw from the PET scan results?

Miss Libby asks her class to draw a picture of a dog. They draw pictures of retrievers, shepherds, mutts,

terriers, spaniels, and lots of others. Her students obviously have different ______ of a dog.

The Whitney family lost the first round on a popular game show because none of their answers

(“clavichord,” “tuba,” “ukulele”) to the question “Name a popular musical instrument” had been mentioned by the population surveyed. Based on cognitive principles, how would you help them improve for the next round?

Shalena has forgotten all but the middle two letters of her computer password. She decides to insert every combination of letters in the missing spaces to try to find her password. She eventually comes upon the right combination. Shalena used a(n) ______________ to recover her password.

Uriah is out with the guys and, when he gets home at 3 a.m., the house is dark and his wife asleep. In order to avoid waking her he gets ready for bed in the dark. He doesn’t run into anything because he has a __ of the house.      e.  script                f.          schema             *g.       cognitive map               h.         concept

A formal concept

When Rip Van Winkle woke up, he couldn’t find his glasses. He decided to start searching in the northeast corner of his house and look in every nook and cranny while moving south and then west. Rip’s search strategy is an example of a(n)

Frankie sprained his ankle playing basketball.  Unfortunately, he didn’t have any ice in his freezer to make an ice pack.  However, he did have a bag of frozen peas, which he used as an ice pack instead.  Frankie most likely overcame which obstacle to problem solving?

James spent months developing a theory of decision making. But in an experimental test, only half of the participants responded as his theory predicted. James concludes that the rest of the subjects did not understand the directions and proclaims that the experiment is evidence in favor of his theory. This is an example of the           

The term artificial intelligence refers to

At a meeting of your swimming club, a vote will be taken as to whether or not you are all going to swim

across a body of water. Last year, the club swam across Crystal Lake, a small lake. The majority votes to do the swim. If group polarization occurs, you would expect the group to decide to swim across

The two basic elements of a language are ______________ and ______________.

If you have words and a set of rules for using those words, you have everything you need for

The meaning of the word pot can be altered simply by changing the vowel to an “a,” forming the word pat.

            In this example, “a” is a(n)

Unopened” has ______ morphemes.

            After incurring brain damage, some patients develop language problems. Such patients often cannot tell that the sentence “Tom hit Sally” expresses the same idea as the sentence “Sally was hit by Tom.” Apparently, these patients lack an understanding of some of the rules about how words combine with each other in sentences. This shows that these patients have

Quickly smoking musicians returned large light schizophrenics.” This sentence violates the rules of

While walking down the street with you, a friend suddenly exclaims, “Look at those racing cars!” This

 sentence is an example of

Two-year-old Allie is learning to talk. Her sentences are very short and to the point. For example, she says “Me do” when she wants to do something herself. Allie is

Genie was unable to learn language in her teens after being isolated without language until that time.

 Genie’s difficulty is evidence for a

Witnesses to the sniper attacks in Maryland and Virginia described seeing a white work van in the vicinity of the incidents.  These descriptions led police, investigators, and citizens to try to solve the problem (i.e., find the killers) based on this information.  Because the snipers actually drove a dark sedan, they were able to continue their terrible deeds longer.  The people trying to solve the crime were operating under

Which of the following is not true regarding language acquisition?

Which of the following is true about the relationship between language and perception?

According to the Whorf hypothesis, if an Amazon language has many more terms for varieties of snakes

than English does, then it would be expected that native speakers of the Amazon language would be ______ when identifying snakes than speakers of English.

If people who frequently race yachts acquired new words to describe different water conditions, this would

Lenwood knows that his modem connects on the first try about 50% of the time. If it does not connect on the first try, he knows it will take about 20 minutes to connect.  For four days in a row, his modem does not connect on the first try. On the fifth day, Lenwood waits by his modem, certain that it is due to connect on the first try. Lenwood is suffering from

In one of her law classes, Teuta is teamed up with a group in order to discuss what the sentence should be for a first‑time drug offender. By the time the discussion has concluded, the group has decided that the death penalty should be the man’s sentence. The group’s decision demonstrates

Hannah knows her patient has muscle pain and suspects a strained muscle. She then asks the patient only about symptoms associated with a strained muscle and not about symptoms associated with other conditions involving muscle pain. Hannah is exhibiting

A mental representation of one’s environment is called a(n)

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

You are observing the evoked brain potentials of a person who has had brain damage. You note that she has a consistent N100 pattern when presented with a stimulus, but rarely has a P300 pattern. What might you conclude about her information processing?

Tamela took a typing test and typed over 100 words a minute. Unfortunately, she failed the test because she made a mistake on almost every word. This is an example of

Shari is taking a computer‑based test designed to measure knowledge of a word processor.  In order to understand the sequence of commands that allows her to create a macro (e.g., clicking on “Tools”, naming the macro), Shari must use a

According to the Whorf hypothesis, if another language has many more terms for “rudeness” than English does, one would expect the speakers of the other language to be ______________ to impolite behaviors than English speakers are.