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Chimpanzees are unable to make the sounds that humans use in speech.

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Deaf children who don't get an opportunity to learn language when they are young can catch up later.​

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Transformational grammar is a system for converting a deep structure into a surface structure.​

People who look at words find it difficult to say the color of ink of each word,instead of reading the words themselves.This result is known as the __________.​

In making decisions,searching only until you find something that is good enough is called _____.​

​Measurements of brain activity and examination of the chromosomes can aid in determining whether someone has attention deficit disorder.

If you are asked whether one object could be rotated to match another one,you say you answered it by picturing its motion in your head.What evidence did Shepard and Metzler produce to show that your process really is like watching something move?​

A unit of sound is called a phoneme.A unit of meaning is a _____.

What is the difference between preattentive processes and attentive processes (other than the obvious fact that one requires attention and the other doesn't)?​

People who are easily distracted,impulsive,moody,and unlikely to follow through on their plans are said to have __________ disorder.​

​What is the Stroop effect?

Old people who spend much time doing crossword puzzles improve their memory for activities of daily life.​

Improving a skill by studying or practicing something very different from it is known as ____ transfer.​

Research on the framing effect shows that people tend to choose the risky strategy when considering gains and avoid taking risks when considering losses.

​We read both during eye fixations and during the eye movements between fixations.

Compared to satisficers,maximizers tend to make better choices but be less pleased with their choices.​

​Failure to detect changes in part of a scene is known as change ________.

If you can identify something immediately,regardless of how many distractors are present,you are relying on a(n)_________ process.​

Strategies for simplifying a problem or for guiding an investigation are called __________.​

Talking on a cell phone distracts a driver,and so does listening to a passenger who is talking on a cell phone.