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A major difficulty with using ASL to assess the ability of chimps to learn language is that:

If a species on another planet had a system of communication that involved symbols (in the form of different squeaks) and rules (the order of the squeaks was important), would this information be enough to indicate that the species is using “language”?

The fact that the word e-mail can be used both as a noun and a verb depending on how words are arranged is an example of  _____.

Apart from chimpanzees, researchers have attempted to teach language to _____.

_____ is the tendency to attribute mental states to other individuals.

The fact that “The dog bit John” means something different from “John bit the dog” is an example of the importance of _____ in language.

Moths that blend in with trees or grasses are:

In artificial language experiments, the chimps were raised in:

Brodbeck and Shettleworth’s experiment revealed that food-storing birds have far superior _____ memory abilities compared to non-storing birds.

In order to determine whether animals understand categories, which of the following conditioning procedures would be used?