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A. Ateenager was given a new phone as a gift and thought the old phone should be thrown away, not realizing that the old phone could be used as a music player to avoid taking up space on the new phone. This example illustrates (A) ill-structured problems (B) insight (C) divergent thinking (D) functional fixedness (E) incubation 7. A teenager believes very strongly that a particular basketball player should not play on his favorite team. Over the course of the player the teenager focuses on every mistake, turnover, and missed shot the player makes. However, the teen does not notice how well the passes, helps the other teammates, and rebounds. This teenager layer behavior illustrates which of the following? (A) A mnemonic (B) Confirmation bias (C) The availability heuristic (D) An algorithmic error (E) Metacognition . Noam Chomsky's view of language proposes that (A) people have an inherent language acquisition device (B) thinking is merely language of a nonverbal nature (C) different levels of language ability are determined by heredit (D) language acquisition can be explained by social modeling (E) language is learned principally through verbal reinforcemer According to Benjamin Whorf" linguistic relativity hypothesis which of the following is true? (A) Individuals have a natural predisposition to learn language (B) Individuals learn positive instances of concepts faster thar learn negative instances. C) Children learn their first language from their relatives an peer group. D) Different languages predispose those individuals who sp them to think about the world in different ways. E) Children learn quantifying words such as more and furt Chinese than they do absolutes such as every and all.

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6. (D) functional fixedness 7. (B) Confirmation bias 8. (A) inherent language acquisition device 9. (D) Different languages predispose those individuals who speak them to think about the world in different ways.