1) christianson and colleagues (2001) presented participants with sentences such as
while anna dressed the baby played in the crib and found that many participants:
a.misinterpreted the sentences initially then corrected themselves
b.never actually comprehended the sentences accurately
c.used a variety of parsing strategies
d.tended to err when the sentences were long or used infrequent words
2) which of the following are strategies for establishing coherence?
a.given/new, direct matching, and reinstating old information
b.substitution, ellipsis, and conjunctive
c.reiteration, synonomy, and hyponymy
d.pronominal, demonstrative, and comparative
3) a speech error or slip of the tongue in which one speech segment disappears from its
appropriate location and appears somewhere else is called a(n):
a.blend
b.shift
c.exchange
d.anticipation
4) the tendency for a psychological function to be located in one hemisphere is referred
to as:
a.dissociation
b.displacement
c.lateralization
d.conduction
5) in the sentence, tom said that bill had taken the cleaning out yesterday, we tend to
attach the adverb yesterday to bill had taken, rather than tom said . this is an example of
the:
a.late closure strategy
b.immediacy principle
c.minimal attachment strategy
d.lexical preference strategy
6) the one-word stage starts at approximately:
a.2 years old
b.1 year old
c.6 months old
d.3 months old
7) the studies by case, kurland, and goldberg (1982) on the development of working
memory found that:
a.there is no increase in working memory capacity from infancy to six years of age
b.there is no increase in working memory capacity from six years to adulthood
c.there was a positive correlation between response speed and memory span
d.all of the above
8) the set of rules needed to generate a sentence is called its:
a.phrase structure
b.morphology
c.derivation
d.constituent structure
9) language interference tends to be less when:
a.one parent speaks one language and the other speaks another
b.both parents make an effort to speak both languages to the child
c.the languages are very similar to one another
d.all of the above
10) berlin and kay (1969) found that _____ color terms appear in all languages:
a.over 1100
b.over 100
c.11
d.3