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1.
Swiss Psychologist, ……. Believed that thought not only
determines language, but also precedes it.
Jean Piaget
2.
Who emphasized the cognitive approach in his research on
the development of understanding in the child?
Jean Piaget
3.
Who introduced the nation of a transformational grammar,
which allows to transform the meaning, or deep structure, of a sentence into
the actual words in the sentences?
Noam Chomsky
4.
Who has called thinking as “subvocal-talking”?
Watson
5.
The learning theory of behaviour of ……… seek to explain
language acquisition in terms of operant conditioning.
B.F Skinner
6.
Who published a remarkable integration of researches on Choice
Reaction Time (CRT)?
E.E Smith
7.
Knowledge and understanding of one’s own mental processes
is known as
Metacognition
8.
A technique that produces a graphic record of brain wave
pattern is
Electro Encephalo Gram (EEG)
9.
Who constructed a battery of tests to measure creativity
in people and carefully analyzed various aspects of thinking?
Guildford
10. ………. process involves structuring of
communicative acts by adults to facilitate development of children’s linguistic
as well as Socio-cultural competence.
Scaffolding
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11. The smallest
meaningful units in the structure of a language are called
Morphemes
12. ………. consists of
a system of symbols we use to communicate with each other.
Language
13. ……… is a kind
of problem solving in which we are presented with several alternatives among
which we must choose
Decision making
14. Experiences or
learning in any form is the starting process of
Concept formation
15. ……… are
strategies, usually based on our past experience with problems, that are likely
to lead to a solution but do not guarantee success.
Heuristics
16. Linguists have
found it useful to describe a sentence by the organization of its various
phrases, such a description is called the …. of the sentence.
Phrase structure
17. During the ……….
Stage of creative thinking the thinker often experiences sudden appearance of
the solution of his problem
Inspiration or illumination
18. Metacognition is
the knowledge and understanding of
One’s own mental processes
19. The elapsed
time between presentation of stimulus and response to it is called
Reaction time
20. Linguistic relativity
hypothesis id proposed by
B.L Whorf
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21. Blending in
the context of language is a kind of
Lexical error
22. Who suggested
that children are born with a powerful language acquisition device (LAD)?
Noam Chomsky
23. Semantics refers
to
Study of meaning of words and sentences
24. A particular
kind of set that can point thoughts in the wrong direction has been called
Functional fixedness
25. The types of
complex concepts are conjunctive, disjunctive and ………..
Relational
26. In order to pin
down connotative meanings more precisely, a method of measurement called the ………..
has been developed
Semantic differential
27. The smallest
meaningful units in the structure of a language are called
Morphemes
28. The ……..
structure is the actual sound sequence-the production of the sentences
Surface
29. A child’s
ability to use language corresponds closely to his ability to deal with
Concepts and relationships
30. ………. is a
special type of deductive thinking which involves drawing conclusions from
certain known facts
Reasoning
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31. In the stage of
……… an idea for the solution occurs
Illumination
32. When we learn
a concept, two psychological processes operate, viz, generalization and …………..
Discrimination
33. ………… consists
of the cognitive rearrangement or manipulation of both information from the
environment and the symbols stored in long-term memory.
Thinking
34. ………… thinking
is aimed at solving problems and creating something new
Directed
35. ………. proposed
that thinking is subvocal speech or a kind of ‘Silent talk’
Watson
36. ………… stimuli
produce reactions appropriate to some stimulus other than themselves
Symbolic
37. The algorithms
and heuristics we use in solving problems typically come from our …….. with the
solution of similar problems
Past Experience
38. ………. refers to
the way of perceiving certain structure or situation which we can call
perceptual set also
Mental Set
39. ….. is a
process by which individuals are encouraged to produce solutions of problems in
a group
Brain Storming
40. The study of
languages as structured systems of rules; includes the study of the origin of
language, the relationships among languages, it is known as
Linguistics
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41. Thinking that
produces many ideas, or alternatives, a major element in original or creative
thought, is called
Divergent thought
42. ………………. in
creative thinking is defined as the total number of suggestions you are able to
make
Originality
43. Going from
specific facts or observations to general principles is known as
Inductive thinking
44. Going from
general principles to specific situations is
Deductive thinking
45. Thinking proceeding
from given information to new conclusions on the basis of explicit rules, is….
Logical
46. Problem-solving
strategies that guide the search for solutions are called
Heuristic
47. A language
must have a …….., or set of rules, for making sounds into words and words into
sentences
Grammar
48. The third,
perhaps and most essential, characteristic of language is
Productive
49. The basic
speech sounds are called
Phonemes
50. The smallest
meaningful units of speech are called
Morphemes
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51. A body of
words, or symbols and rules for combining them that is used for communication
and thought and is understood by a sizable community is
Language
52. Concepts are
powerful tools because they allow us to think more
Abstractly
53. ………. is the
process of classifying information into meaningful categories
Concept formation
54. A ……….. refers
to a class of objects having more than one feature in common
Conjunctive Concept
55. “A motor cycle
must have two wheels and an engine and handle bars” is an example of
Conjunctive concept
56. ……….. classify
objects on the basis of their relationship to something else or by the
relationship between features of an object
Relational concept
57. …………. refers
to objects that have atleast one of several possible features
Disjunctive concept
58. Study of the
meaning of words and language is called
Semantics
59. A language
must provide ……….. that can stand for objects and ideas
Symbols
60. “Thinking” is
considered in cognitive psychology as
Programming
61. Who holds the “world
record” for mental calculation?
Shakuntala Devi
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