AnswersLHS-Psychology 1 cr.Issues with Remembrance and Forgetting

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Convergent thinking utilizes creativity to generate possible solutions.

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Fast and frugal heuristics allow one to make quick decisions with limited information.

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The abundance of choices available to people when making a decision can cause them to feel overwhelmed.

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Research done in Nicaragua suggests that language influences one’s ability to understand large numbers.

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Language enabled philosophers in the Middle Ages to pass their ideas on to future generations.

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A child who says, “My toy car breaked,” or “I runned up the hill,” is demonstrating __________.

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overextension
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telegraphic speech
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overregularization
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fast mapping
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Which of the following examples best illustrates functional fixedness?

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Adam needs to keep the door open, so he uses his psychology book as a door stop.
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Trey wants to nail a poster up in his room, so he uses his shoe as a hammer.
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Julie lost her earring back, so she throws the earring away instead of using a pencil eraser.
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Morgan uses a wrench as a paper weight while she writes her essay for psychology outdoors.
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The English language has about 40 distinct phonemes.

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Researchers have identified precisely 4,500 languages in the world.

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Research indicates that infants can distinguish more phonemes from languages all over the world than adults.

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One barrier to problem solving is the tendency to impose constraints that don’t exist.

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The mean length of utterance (MLU) decreases with age.

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Cognitive diversity refers to the similarities in viewpoints and methods in problem solving.

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In the decision-making process, the last step is to __________.

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brainstorm options
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analyze each option
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select the option
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eliminate options
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Which of the following statements concerning bilingualism is not correct?

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Research indicates that bilingualism has serious negative effects on language development.
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Research indicates that bilingualism enhances cognitive processing.
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Laws that reduce the availability of bilingual education programs have led to increased controversy over bilingualism.
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Bilingualism is more common in Europe than in the United States.
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Changing how a problem is represented can assist in overcoming problem solving issues.

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All of the following are categories used to classify problems except problems of __________.

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arrangement
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inducing structure
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transformation
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schematic completion
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Working backwards is an example of using an algorithm to solve problems.

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All languages are comprised of the same phonemes.

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How many phonemes are there in the word “dogs”?

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four
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three
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two
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one

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