Judgment & Reasoning
What are heuristics?
Being able to describe many tiny details in the picture, as if you were still viewing the picture.
What is eidetic memory?
Rules that describe the proper way to speak, or the way language is supposed to be
What are prescriptive rules?
Language determines the types of concepts and thoughts a person can have
What is the Whorfian hypothesis?
People base their estimates of frequency on how easily they can think of examples of the relevant category.
What is the availability heuristic?
Steps that lead to both a verbal memory and a visual memory
What is dual coding?
The rules governing the sequence of words in forming phrases and sentences
What is syntax?
In speaking, the pattern of pauses and the rise and fall of pitch.
What is prosody?
Assuming that all instances of the category resemble the prototype.
What is the representativeness heuristic?
Recalling something in a zoomed out perspective?
What is boundary extension?
The process of “slicing” the stream of speech into successive syllables or words is called
What is speech segmentation?
When the setting in which a sentence occurs can help us understand garden-path sentences.
What is extralinguistic context?
Information about the broad likelihood of a particular event.
What is the base rate?
________ imagery is associated with how things look, while ________ imagery is associated with an abstract form or arrangement.
What is visual; spatial
Phonemes overlap, both in their production and in their sound pattern.
What is coarticulation?
The collection of processes in the brain proposed to account for our ability to easily pick up language in our early years.
What is the Language Acquisition Device?
Dual process models.
What are the two kinds of thinking: one that is fast and automatic and one that is slower but more accurate?
Studies of visual knowledge that rely on response time as the individual attempts to manipulate the visual image.
What are chronometric studies?
Knowing about how language is ordinarily used
What is pragmatics?
A disruption in language following brain damage.