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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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