Cognition and language

Your ______ of ‘hotel room’ would lead you to expect yours to include a bathroom

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.

• Only the surface structure

• Both the surface structure and the deep structre

• Neither the surface structure or the deep structure

• Only the deep structure

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

• Representation

• Cognitive map

• Schema

• Mental model

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:

• Lack of intelligence

• Functional fixedness

• A heuristic

• An algorithm

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

• Social convention

• Language acquisition device

• Critical period in language acquisition

• Speech spectorgraph

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

• Cognitive maps are extraordinarily accurate representations of the environment

• It to create a cognitive map without being able to see the environment

• The especially helpful in navigating unfamiliar environments

• They are not subject to any cognitive distortions

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:

• Phonemes

• Semantics

• Morphemes

• Syntax

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.

• Decrease; increases

• Increase; increase

• Decrease; decrease

• Increase; decrease

If you tackle a massive problem, one small step at a time, you are using an approach called _________

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

• Thoughts and language

• Personality and intelligence

• Human commincation

• How information in the environment is modified