1) the strong form of the whorf hypothesis holds that:
a.languages differ in the ease with which certain ideas can be expressed
b.the presence of linguistic categories creates cognitive categories
c.language influences specialized modes of thought
d.ultimately, all languages express reality in the same way
2) agrammatic speech is characterized by:
a.the omission of articles, conjunctions and grammatical inflections
b.fluent speech that has little informational values
c.speech that is neither grammatic nor fluent
d.speech that is initially agrammatic and disfluent, but which can be self-corrected by
the patient with minimal coaching.
3) slips of the hand are similar to slips of the tongue in that:
a.both are more likely to occur when the language producer is tired, anxious, or drunk
b.both typically involve a single aspect of language production
c.both are more likely to involve parallel processing than serial processing
d.both involve regular cycles of production and hesitation
4) children who acquire language using a referential strategy tend to:
a.use dummy terms in their sentences
b.have poor articulation of individual sounds but clear sentence intonation patterns
c.learn sentences as complete, unanalyzed units
d.use mainly nouns
5) ____________ pathways enable each half of the brain to control the opposite side of
the body.
a.ipsilateral
b.contralateral
c.dichotic
d.dissociation
6) lucys studies of the object-substance distinction in english and yucatec speakers
found that:
a.yucatec speakers specified the number of inanimate objects more than english
speakers
b.yucatec speakers grouped objects on the basis of material
c.english speakers grouped objects on the basis of material
d.despite differences in their languages, english and yucatec speakers grouped objects
in an almost identical fashion.
7) the use of a regular morpheme in a word that is irregular, such as goed, is referred to
as a(n):
a.overextension
b.overregularization
c.underextension
d.none of the above
8) the distinction between direct matching and bridging is that in bridging:
a. the reference is to something that occurred several sentences back
b.the reference is to material that must be inferred
c.the reference is by synonym instead of by exact repetition
d.the reference has been ellipted
9) the way we perceive and understand speech is known as:
a.language comprehension
b.language production
c.language acquisition
d.language development
10) analyzing garden path sentences reveals processes involved in:
a.interpreting the meaning of sentences that contain ambiguities
b.interpreting indirect speech requests
c.sentence production by individuals with language disorders
d.childrens use of one-word phrases
11) in english, there is a rising intonation in:
a.wh-questions
b. yes/no questions
c.both wh- and yes/no question
d.neither wh- nor yes/no questions
12) palincsar and brown (1984) were able to demonstrate substantial increases in
student reading comprehension when:
a.titles oriented the students to certain passages in the text
b.the students read the passage out loud
c.the students were taught to formulate questions that addressed the important points of
the text
d.the students chose the material themselves
13) a cognitive structure that represents an aspect of our environment is known as a:
a.semantic model
b.cohort model
c.mental model
d.network model