PSY 360 Week 4 Quiz

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Question 1

Which of the following is/are generally agreed upon as necessary criteria/criterion for claiming that a communication system is a language?

Question 2

The study of the ways in which sounds can be combined in any given language is called:

Question 3

The branch of linguistics devoted to the study of meaning:

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a kind of syntactic rule proposed by Chomsky?

Question 5

According to the study of semantics, understanding the meaning of a sentence requires which of the following conditions?

Question 6

“George is not tall enough to ride the roller coaster.” “George is too short to ride the roller coaster.” These sentences are related through:

Question 7

According to Miller, a fundamental problem of speech perception is:

Question 8

Warren and Warren showed that when presented with a sentence where a sound was replaced by a cough (represented by * here), such as “It was found that the *eel was on the axle,”

Question 9

Studies of context and speech perception have shown all of the following phenomena EXCEPT:

Question 10

Studies of speech errors suggest that:

Question 11

Studies of sentence comprehension have shown all of the following EXCEPT:

Question 12

“I’m going to meet him at the bank.” At the First National Bank, or at the river bank? This type of ambiguity is referred to as:

Question 13

Swinney’s research suggests that when we encounter a lexically ambiguous word,

Question 14

Which of the following does NOT make a passage of text easier to comprehend, according to research?

Question 15

The average eye fixation lasts about:

Question 16

Kintsch and Keenan found that we spend more time reading sentences that have:

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT true of story grammars?

Question 18

Fodor’s modularity hypothesis proposes that:

Question 19

Whorf’s linguistic relativity hypothesis:

Question 20

Damage to Broca’s area often leads to:

Question 21

The smallest meaningful units of language are called phonemes.

Question 22

Semantics is the branch of linguistics that studies meaning.

Question 23

The word “bat” is considered to be lexically ambiguous because it has two possible meanings.

Question 24

A bridging inference is a system of rules that allows us to comprehend large, integrated pieces of text.

Question 25

Grice’s maxim of quantity says that one should be truthful in a conversation.

Question 26

Whorf’s hypothesis has been strongly supported by cross-cultural studies of color perception.

Question 27

“Turn in your exam” is an example of a directive.

Question 28

Speech errors often involve swapping words with similar meaning, or words with similar sounds, but rarely do they involve both meaning and sound.

Question 29

People tend to process both meanings of ambiguous words when they encounter them in sentences.

Question 30

Damage to Wernicke’s area is associated with difficulties in speaking.