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Research findings suggest that the best advice to give people who want to avoid belief perseverance is


A) "Try to justify your positions."
B) "Consider the opposite."
C) "Don't draw hasty conclusions."
D) "Be as objective as possible."

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No matter what language we first use, our first words are mostly


A) verbs.
B) adverbs.
C) adjectives.
D) nouns.

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As he attempted to spell the word receive, Tim reminded himself "i before e except after c." Tim's self-reminder best illustrates the use of


A) trial and error.
B) insight.
C) an algorithm.
D) a heuristic.

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Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates


A) a fixation.
B) the framing effect.
C) the availability heuristic.
D) overconfidence.

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The basic units of cognition are


A) phonemes.
B) concepts.
C) prototypes.
D) morphemes.

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State lottery officials send residents a facsimile of a contest-winning check for over $5 million to encourage them to imagine themselves as possible winners. The lottery promoters are most clearly exploiting the influence of


A) confirmation bias.
B) belief perseverance.
C) an algorithm.
D) the availability heuristic.

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Phonemes are the basic units of ________ in language.


A) sound
B) Meaning
C) Grammar
D) semantics

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A sudden realization of the solution to a problem is called


A) framing.
B) insight.
C) a heuristic.
D) belief perseverance.

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Confirmation bias refers to the tendency to


A) allow preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning.
B) cling to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.
C) search randomly through alternative solutions when problem solving.
D) look for information that is consistent with one's beliefs.

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The older a person is when moving to a new country, the harder it is to learn the language. This best illustrates the importance of ________ for learning language.


A) Heuristics
B) mental age
C) algorithms
D) a critical period

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Which of the following has been argued by critics of ape language research?


A) Ape language is merely imitation of the trainer's behavior.
B) There is little evidence that apes can equal even a 3-year-old's ability to order words with proper syntax.
C) By seeing what they wish to see, trainers attribute greater linguistic ability to apes than actually exists.
D) All of these are arguments by critics.

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In attempting to find and purchase high-quality cosmetics, Megan reminds herself that the most expensive brands are the best. Megan's self-reminder illustrates the use of


A) an algorithm.
B) trial and error.
C) framing.
D) a heuristic.

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After Miguel's recent automobile accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebral cortex in Broca's area. It is likely that Miguel will have difficulty


A) remembering past events.
B) speaking fluently.
C) reading.
D) understanding other people when they speak.

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At the age of 15 months, Anita repeatedly cries "hoy" when she wants her mother to hold her. Anita is most likely in the ________ stage of language development.


A) Syntactic
B) Babbling
C) telegraphic speech
D) one-word

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The part of the left temporal lobe that is involved in understanding language is known as


A) Broca's area.
B) the motor cortex.
C) Wernicke's area.
D) the sensory cortex.

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A televised image of a starving child had a greater impact on Mr. White's perception of the extensiveness of world hunger than did a statistical chart summarizing the tremendous scope of the problem. This suggests that his assessment of the world hunger problem is influenced by


A) belief perseverance.
B) an algorithm.
C) confirmation bias.
D) the availability heuristic.

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An effort to "consider the opposite" would be most likely to inhibit


A) the availability heuristic.
B) belief perseverance.
C) receptive language.
D) insight.

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If you want to be absolutely certain that you will find the solution to a problem you know is solvable, you should use


A) a heuristic.
B) an algorithm.
C) insight.
D) trial and error.

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The smallest distinctive sound unit of language is a


A) prototype.
B) suffix.
C) morpheme.
D) phoneme.

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Brain scans reveal that different ________ are activated when we process verbs rather than nouns.


A) Algorithms
B) Heuristics
C) neural networks
D) critical periods

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