PSY 120 Final Exam Questions with Complete Solutions

Functional Fixedness The tendency to see objects and their functions in certain fixed and typical ways. Representative Heuristics The tendency to make decisions based on an alternatives similarity in relation to an ideal. Phonology Sounds of words. Segmentation Pick out individual words Semantics Meaning of words Grammar Connecting words together Stress Cues Babies pick up words that are stressed Statistical Cues Certain sounds follow others, certain other sounds stick together, and others never appear in certain places. Phonotactics How sounds like to arrange themselves Frequency Repetition of words Over Generalizing Calling everything one specific word Social Cues Social relevance Heuristics Rules to guess what words might mean Precanonical babies just starting to make sounds Referential Style talk about "things" Expressive Style talking a lot but don't know specific words; rambling Telegraphic Speech just important words Grammatical Morphology morphing endings and beginnings of words