Question : 21. Which of the following statements BEST describes the general : 1182133

 

21. Which of the following statements BEST describes the general relationship between thinking and language?

a) Language is a tool that may be used in thinking, but it isn’t the sole basis of thought.

b) Language is the sole basis of thought.

c) When we think, we always make use of language.

d) Language usually is not required in thought processes.

22. Mental images are internal representations similar to images that arise during perception, except that mental images are based on ________.

a) immediate sensory input rather than on stored information

b) stored information rather than on immediate sensory input

c) categories rather than actual images

d) concepts rather than actual images

23. Consistent with the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which of the following is most likely to be true?

a) People from New England and England think very differently.

b) People from New Mexico and New England think very differently.

c) People from China and New England think very differently.

d) People from China and New England think very similarly.

24. What do we call the hypothesis that language influences what we think?

a) the dynamic hypothesis

b) the language reaction hypothesis

c) the linguistic relativity hypothesis

d) the cognitive linguistic hypothesis

25. The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that ______.

a) one’s language determines the pattern of one’s thinking and view of the world

b) one’s thinking and view of the world determines the structure of one’s language

c) we decide which objects belong to a concept according to what is most probable or sensible, given the facts at hand

d) perception of surface structure precedes deep structure in understanding a sentence

26. When people are asked to say how many windows they have in their dwelling, the amount of time people take to come up with the answer ______________.

a) doesn’t depend on the number of windows

b) depends on the number of windows

c) depends on the size of the windows

d) depends on whether the house had one or two stories, not the number of windows

27. You ask a student to describe the path to his dorm room. The most likely way in which he will do this is to _________.

a) recite a rote list of directions he memorized

b) give you the GPS location of his dorm room

c) walk through a mental image of the path and describe it to you as he does it

d) none of these

28. When subjects are asked to scan a mental image, the relationship between the scan time and the size of the image is ________.

a) negative

b) zero

c) positive

d) curvilinear

29. What is a concept?

a) an agreed upon external representation of a set of objects or events

b) an idea that underlies the meaning of a word or image

c) an ambiguous internal representation that defines a set of objects or events

d) an abstract proposition that defines one object or event

30. What are mental categories representing activities, objects, qualities, or situations that share some common characteristics?

a) classes

b) concepts

c) attributes

d) classifications

 

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