Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

Understanding Text and Stories • 311 You might conclude, from the fact that the headache sentence directly follows the shower se ...

312 • CHAPTER 11 Language the picture shows the object mentioned in the sentence, the correct answer was “yes” no matter which n ...

Understanding Text and Stories • 313 a bicycle is propelled (by peddling) and the physical exertion involved in riding the bicyc ...

314 • CHAPTER 11 Language This correspondence between brain activity caused by performing actions and by reading action words ha ...

Producing Language: Conversations • 315 Nonetheless, we are usually able to respond to their statements almost immediately. One ...

316 • CHAPTER 11 Language syntactic priming—hearing a statement with a particular syntactic construction increases the chances t ...

Something to Consider • 317 In reality, the person on the other side of the screen was a confederate who was working with the ex ...

318 • CHAPTER 11 Language squares and were instructed to pick, as quickly and accurately as possible, the square on the bottom t ...

Something to Consider • 319 According to Winawer, the Russians’ faster response when stimuli were from different categories occu ...

320 • CHAPTER 11 Language arithmetic problems is related to language differences between Chinese-speaking and English-speaking p ...

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE determining how a sentence is parsed. The interaction- ist approach proposes that both semantics and sy ...

322 • CHAPTER 11 Language involved in bilingualism, has been studied both behavior- ally and physiologically. Kroll, J. F., & ...

MEDIA RESOURCES Gleason, J. B., & Ratner, N. B. (1998). Language acquisition. In J. B. Gleason & N. B. Ratner (Eds.), Ps ...

Problem Solving A problem occurs when there is an obstacle between a present state and a goal, and it is not immediately obvious ...

325 Bob Krist/Corbis WHAT IS A PROBLEM? THE GESTALT APPROACH: PROBLEM SOLVING AS REPRESENTATION AND RESTRUCTURING Representing a ...

326 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving What makes a problem hard? (326) Is there anything special about problems that seem to be solve ...

The Gestalt Approach • 327 The Gestalt Approach: Problem Solving as Representation and Restructuring We introduced the Gestalt p ...

328 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving insight, the solution to most of the problems posed by Gestalt psychologists involves suddenly ...

The results of their experiment are shown in ● Figure 12.4, which indicates the median warmth ratings for all of the participant ...

330 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving When he compared the performance of the two groups, he found that the group that had been prese ...