Chapter 9: language and thought

Question 1

broca’s aphasia

Answer 1

damage to the Broca’s area where the patient is unable to produce coherent speech

Question 2

agrammatism

Answer 2

damage to brain region just a anterior to Broca’s aphasia where patient is incapable using words in grammatical sequence

Question 3

broca’s area

Answer 3

a region in the frontal lobes near the motor cortex that is important for speech production

Question 4

wernicke’s area

Answer 4

a brain region located in the temporal lobe that is important for language comprehension

Question 5

wernicke’s aphasia

Answer 5

damage to wernicke’s area where a person cannot understand language

Question 6

heuristics

Answer 6

shortcut thinking strategy working backwards/forming subgoals/searching for analogies

Question 7

mental set

Answer 7

tendency to use problem solving strategies that have worked in the past

Question 8

functional fixedness

Answer 8

tendency to view objects as having only one function

Question 9

representativeness heuristic

Answer 9

assumes that individuals share characteristics of category which they are a member

Question 10

availability heuristics

Answer 10

judging easily events that are easily to recall

make decisions based on emotional cues, familiar facts, and vivid images that leave an easily recalled impression in our minds.