Study Questions - Thought & Language

    "There are two ways of being creative. One can sing & dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers & dancers flourish." -- Warren G. Bennis

1. Why is it easier to win at checkers the longer you have been playing?

2. How could you teach people to think more creatively?

3. To develop a secret code for sending computer messages across a network, which language rule should you break?

4. Why might student in college have more difficulty learning a foreign language than students in grade school?

5. Why does dyslexia cause difficulties with reading but not with engineering and inventive abilities?

6. When a parrot speaks perfect English & understands dozens of commands, can we conclude it is using language?

Topics in Psychology
Robert C. Gates
 
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. -- Freud