Chapter 7: Cognition and Language
Fill in the blank



1.  

Psychologists who study sign language believe that specific hand and finger positions serve in the same role as _________ do in spoken language.



2.  

Successive elimination of incorrect solutions to problems until the correct solution is found is called the _____________ problem-solving strategy.



3.  

Huan doesn't know where he wants to go to college but he does know he does not want to live where there is snow. He should use the problem solving technique of __________ to narrow down his choices of colleges.



4.  

Jennifer went to buy a car. She really wanted a red car but there was a great price on a blue car which had a lot of expensive equipment on it that she wanted. Jennifer used the ______________. decision making style when she decided to buy the blue car



5.  

____________ is the tendency to look for evidence in support of a belief and to ignore evidence that would disprove a belief.



6.  

Expressive or nonliteral language, such as metaphor and irony, are called _____________ language.



7.  

Your car runs out of gas and you need a funnel to pour gas into the tank. ________ could lead to you failing to see the empty plastic milk container in your car as fulfilling your need for a funnel.



8.  

Jose doesn't know where he wants to buy a house but he does know he does not want to live where there is smog. He should use the problem solving technique of __________ to narrow down his choices of cities.



9.  

The technique of ___________ encourages people to generate a list of ideas without evaluating those ideas.



10.  

Katie went to buy a house. She really wanted a large yard but there was a good buy on a house in the best school district in the area. Katie had hoped for years that her children could go to that school, so she bought the house even though it had a very small yard. She used ______________ decision making when she decided to buy the house.

Note: answer choices in this exercise are randomized.

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