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PSYC307 COGPSYCH pt2
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1Eli can remember last week but he cannot remember the birth of his cousin which happened immediately before he received a head injury. What is Eli's condition?
- ARetrograde amnesia.
- BAnterograde amnesia.
- CKorsakoff's syndrome
- DCapgras syndrome
2Which testing method mainly targets explicit, rather than implicit, memory?
- ARecall tasks.
- BLexical decision.
- CWord-stem completion.
- DTachistoscopic recognition.
3if participants are shown the word "class" in a list of words and then tested later with the stimulus "cla_ _", which of the following conditions will yield correct completion of the word?
- AExplicit processing of the word.
- BExposure to the word when told that a memory test will follow.
- CExposure to the word when NOT told that a memory test will follow.
- DAll of the above.
4Which of the following is an example of recall?
- ARemembering the name of your 5th grade teacher when asked.
- BSuddenly experiencing the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon.
- COnly knowing a phone number if you have a phone in front of you.
- DIdentifying an old friend you meet in the store even though he has gained weight.
5Damage to the [blank_start]hippocampus[blank_end] tends to result in [blank_start]anterograde amnesia[blank_end].
- Ahippocampus
- Bamygdala
- Canterograde amnesia
- Dunilateral neglect
6Which is NOT part of the evidence for a dissociation between familiarity and source memory?
- AFamiliarity is promoted by creating a link between the test item and the setting; source memory is promoted by focusing on the material to be learned.
- BIt is common to realise that the face is familiar but be unable to place it; it is also possible to have source memory without familiarity.
- CPeople's patterns of brain activity are different when they are making judgements based on familiarity then when they're making judgements based on familiarity plus source memory.
- DSource memory is promoted by creating memory connections; familiarity can be promoted merely by sustained exposure.
7As part of a pronunciation tasks you are given a list of made up names. during a second unrelated task, some of the names appear again. Which factor will LEAST influence the likelihood that you will think the name belongs to a famous person?
- AWhether the names of presented in the auditory or visual modality.
- BThe degree of processing fluency experienced when seeing names for the second time.
- CThe amount of time between the pronunciation tasks and the second task.
- DThe attribution given for the sense of familiarity experienced when seeing the names for a second time.
8All of the following contribute evidence for a dissociation between explicit and implicit memory EXCEPT......
- Athere is a dissociation between primacy and recency effect in the serial position curve.
- Bpeople sometimes treat a familiar name as famous because they have retained their implicit memory of it but lost their explicit memory of where they saw it.
- Chaving a word in front of one's eyes has more impact on a subsequent word-completion task than thinking about the words meaning, but for a subsequent-recall task the opposite is true.
- DPatient H.M. fail to recognise the "Tower of Hanoi" task despite showing improvement over repeat testing sessions.
9The dangers of source confusion are particularly relevant to which real-world situation?
- AEyewitness identification.
- BPlaying the lottery.
- CJury selection.
- DSecond language acquisition.
10a question like "what's the name of the waiter?" requires [blank_start]recall[blank_end]; a question like "isn't that the guy we usually see on the bus?" requires [blank_start]recognition[blank_end].
- Arecall
- Brecognition
- Csource memory
- Drecognition
- Erecall
- Ffamiliarity
11Which behaviour is LEAST likely to be demonstrated by a Korsakoff's patient?
- Arefusing to shake hands with someone who hurt him during a previous handshake, although the patient has no explicit memory of the first handshake.
- BLearning the correct answer to a previously taught question, without a memory of being previously taught.
- CNot remembering tunes heard before as familiar but preferring them to ones not heard before.
- DRecalling that a sentence was heard earlier in the test but feeling no sense of familiarity about the sentence.
12Which of the following experimental results is LEAST likely to be found?
- AMade up names heard before a judge to be famous people's names on a test immediately following initial presentation.
- BPreviously heard sentences are more likely to be judged true on a second hearing, even though the participants were told the original sentences were false.
- CA burst of noise with a familiar sentence embedded in it is judged to be quieter than a burst of noise with the unfamiliar sentence embedded in it.
- DPatients who do not remember having heard certain pieces of music before still prefer those pieces over novel ones.
13In which of the following situations are you MOST likely to decide a stimulus is familiar?
- AYou can recall when and where you last saw the stimulus.
- BProcessing fluency is quite low.
- CProcessing fluency is at the level you had expected.
- DProcessing fluency is high and you attribute this to the stimulus being very beautiful.
14Participants were asked to memorize words in a way that focused either on meaning or sound. They were asked to recall the words with cues that either matched the word or did not match. The results show that recall was best for participants in the.......
- ADeep processing, matched cues condition.
- BShallow processing, match cues condition.
- CShallow processing, mismatched cues condition.
- DDeep processing, mismatched cues condition.
15Someone with anterograde amnesia......
- Ahas no explicit memory for events before the onset of amnesia.
- Bhas no explicit memory for events after the onset of amnesia.
- Chas no implicit memory for events before the onset of amnesia.
- Dhas no implicit memory for events after the onset of amnesia.
16A study has participants read a passage in a boat or on a train, they are then tested for recall of the passage in either the environment they learned in or the other environment. What results would you expect?
- ARecoil performance would be best for people whose testing environment matched their learning environment.
- BAll people tested in the boat would have better recall than all people tested on the train.
- Call people whose learning environment was the boat would have better recall than all people whose learning environment was the train.
- DPeople would have better recall when tested in an environment different than the one in which they had learned.
17Which of the following is NOT true regarding recall performance?
- APhysical context is more important to recall than psychological context.
- BRecall performance benefits from context reinstatement.
- CRecall performance is usually less good than recognition performance.
- Dwhether a clue about a word's sound is more helpful for recall than a clue about it's meaning depends on how the word was thought of when it was learned.
18Based on past research about explicit and implicit memory, which of the following patterns would you most EXPECT to find?
- AIn a word-stem-completion task people are more likely to produce a word they have recently seen, even if they do not remember seeing it, then an equally plausible word they have not seen recently.
- BIn a lexical-decision task, people are quicker to decide if a string of letters is an English word when they have not seen that letter string recently.
- CIn a tachistoscopic recognition task, people are more likely to recognise a word if they recently saw it in a sentence then if they recently saw it without any context.
- Din a word-fragment-completion task people are more likely to come up with word endings that they have previously seen, but only if they have a conscious memory of the word.
19Which is the best example of "encoding specificity"?
- AReading the word "washed" but later failing to realise that, as part of this presentation, the word "ash" has also been viewed.
- BStudying the word "calf" in a list of farm animals results in a feeling of familiarity when "calf" is later presented in a list of body parts.
- CRecognising a picture that was seen earlier, regardless of whether one is focusing on the same part of the picture as before.
- Dbeing tested in a quiet room free of distractions is better than being tested in a loud room, regardless of learning context.
20Imagine you find that words that were initially presented in the context of a sentence show stronger priming in an indirect memory task than words that were presented alone. Knowing about process purity, what can you conclude?
- AExplicit memory was affected by the initial exposure.
- BImplicit memory was affected by the initial exposure.
- CBoth kinds of memory were affected by initial exposure.
- DAt least one kind of memory was affected, but beyond that is unclear.
21Explicit memories are revealed by [blank_start]direct[blank_end] memory tests such as [blank_start]recall[blank_end]; whereas implicit memories are revealed by [blank_start]indirect[blank_end] memory tests such as [blank_start]priming[blank_end].
- Adirect
- Bindirect
- Crecall
- Dpriming
- Eindirect
- Fdirect
- Gpriming
- Hrecall
22For a procedure that relies on processing fluency, what matters most is [blank_start]encountering[blank_end] the test stimulus.
- Aencountering
- Bunderstanding
- Cremembering
- Drecognising
23What is the CLEAREST advantage of connecting new information to prior knowledge in several different ways?
- AIt allows the information to be accessed from multiple retrieval paths.
- BIt "cements" the new material in memory more securely, so the neurons are less likely to decay.
- CIt opens the way for state-dependent learning to take place.
- DIt improves your implicit memory for the information.
24Which of the following is required for an attribution of fluency to occur?
- AYou try to interpret the feeling of specialness.
- BThe efficiency of your processing of a stimulus is exactly what you'd expect it to be.
- CYou explicitly recall your previous encounter with a stimulus.
- DYou are aware that the stimulus feel special somehow.
25Results in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure demonstrate......
- Aintrusion errors based on semantic knowledge.
- Bthat confidence is a direct index of accuracy of recall.
- Cthe role of perceptual priming in recall.
- Dthe importance of having multiple retrieval paths in memory.
26Schemata do all of the following EXCEPT.....
- Aprevent us from confusing an event with other similar events.
- Bencouraging certain types of errors in our perception and memory.
- Chelp fill in gaps in out recollection.
- Dhelp us understand a situation.
27Which statement pertaining to the overall state of memory is FALSE?
- AErrors in memory more common than accurate memories.
- BSome forgetting is beneficial because it allows us to generalise.
- CSchemata allow us to direct our attention more efficiently so we can include more useful memories.
- DThere are principles that apply to all of memory, as well as principles that apply only to specific sorts of memory.
28Which of the following is likely to be most important in creating the "narrowing" of focus often found in memories of emotional events?
- AThe emotion is often caused by one particular stimulus which is then given the majority of one's attention.
- BEmotional events are seen as very personally relevant.
- CIncreases in glucose during emotional episodes.
- DEmotional events are more likely to be perceived as significant, and therefore closely attended.
29based on current knowledge, which of the following seems the LEAST well-established reason for a traumatic childhood memory to come to light after many years?
- AThe memory was repressed because it was too painful, but it now has been recovered.
- BThe memory was consciously remembered all along, but it was not talked about before.
- CThe memory is false and was created, probably with the help of suggestions from an outside party.
- DThere was retrieval failure, but a cue finally appeared that triggered the memory.
309/11 was a very emotional event that, for many people, lead to a flashbulb memory. Details of the day of this event are likely to be remembered most accurately by....
- AAn individual who worked in the immediate vicinity and narrowly escaped harm, questioned immediately.
- BAn individual who worked in the immediate vicinity and narrowly escaped harm, questioned one year later.
- CA closely involved individual who expressed extreme confidence in her memory one year later.
- DAn individual from a neighbouring state who had not previously known of the building.
31Which of these features reliably distinguishes false memories and true memories?
- ADifference in speed of recounting false memories and true memories.
- BLevel of emotionality in recalling the memory.
- CLevel of detail in the recalled memory.
- DNothing that we know of reliably distinguishes true and false memories.
32Which is LEAST well established as a contributor to the forgetting of traumatic events?
- ADeliberate forgetting or repression on the part of the traumatised individual.
- BSleep deprivation.
- CExtreme stress disrupting the biological processes of memory consolidation.
- DAlcohol and drug use.
33Which of the following statements is FALSE?
- AElements of a particular episode are stored in a "file" that separates them from elements of other episodes.
- Bthe greater the density of connections associated with a particular episode, the more likely intrusion errors are to occur.
- CMemory connections can both help and hurt memory accuracy.
- Dwhen events are misremembered they tend to be remembered as more normal, or more consistent with expectations, then they actually were.
34Which of the following statements is the MOST accurate?
- AThere is little or no relation between memory confidence and memory accuracy.
- BPeople who are more confident in their memories are likely to be more accurate.
- CAlthough juries tend to believe that memory confidence of witnesses is a good sign of memory accuracy, judges do not.
- DIndicating that someone has remembered correctly has no effect on memory confidence.
35Which of the following claims about false memories is INCORRECT?
- ASome false memories can be implanted in children, but not ones about major traumatic events.
- BIt is easier to implant plausible memories than implausible ones.
- CIt is easier to implant a false memory if the false suggestion is repeated, rather than delivered just a single time.
- DSome individuals are more susceptible than others to false memories.
36Memories that are not lost within a few years of their acquisition......
- Ahave probably achieved a state of permastore.
- Bnever need to be rehearsed to stay in memory.
- Ctend to pop into one's thoughts much more frequently than they initially did.
- Dwill mostly be lost within 10 years.
37Intrusion errors are not typically caused by.....
- Awords or ideas associated with the material being learned.
- Bbackground knowledge brought to a situation.
- Cmaintenance rehearsal.
- Dthoughts about an event that take place after the event has occurred.
38Rugby players recall of the names of their teammates suffered based on the number of intervening games, not based on the mere passage of time. This study demonstrates that......
- Ainterference is a major contributor to forgetting.
- Bdecay is a major contributor to forgetting.
- Cseparate events are stored as separate contained units in memory.
- Da change in the players perspective leads to retrieval failure in recall.
39Which of the following would NOT be due to schemata?
- AWitnesses to a crime blur together in their memory what they saw with what they heard from another witness.
- BParticipants remember seeing books on the shelves in an academic office, even when there were none.
- CWhen people give accounts of past events, they are easily able to fill in the holes in their memory by making (usually correct) inferences.
- Dsteering recall of a story taken from the folklore of Native Americans, British participants systemically change the facts to be more in line with their worldview.
40Which of the following is LEAST likely to promote misremembering?
- AHaving some involvement in an event rather than just witnessing it.
- BThe passage of time.
- CImagining what may have happened if an event had gone differently.
- DBeing exposed to misinformation after the event.
41Which of the following provides us with an understanding of cause and effect?
- AExplanatory theories.
- BExemplar theory.
- CPrototype theory.
- DFuzzy boundaries.
42All of the following are true about explanatory theories EXCEPT they......
- Aare only useful in providing a cause-and-effect understanding if they are accurate.
- Bcan increase the ease with which we can learn a new category.
- Cprovide a crucial knowledge base we can rely on to think about a particular category.
- DServe the same function as a scientist theory, though they are less precise.
43Which approach best explains knowledge of variability and distinctions within a category?
- AExemplars.
- BPrototypes.
- CDefinitions.
- DTheories.
44According to Wittgenstein, we.....
- Aassess category membership probabilistically by family resemblance.
- Bcan find rigid features that define a category but only after intensive study.
- CFirst in counter the prototypical member of a category, and then we compare all other potential members to it.
- DHave no real general concept for each category we know but instead learn each category member individually.
45The idea that we categorise objects based on their similarity to previous stored instances is known as......
- Aexemplar theory.
- Bgeometric theory.
- Cprototype theory.
- Dfeature theory.
46Compared with non-experts, experts in a particular field will.....
- Ahave more complex explanatory theories.
- Bbase category solely on appearance.
- Crely particularly strongly on exemplars.
- Dpay less attention to the relationships between categories.
47Which of the following statements is FALSE?
- AWhen asked to describe an object, people are likely to choose the most general term for that object first.
- BPeople tend to remember more general terms (animal) when they have heard very specific terms (dog).
- CPeople tend to remember more specific terms (dog) when they have heard very general terms (animal).
- Dbasic level terms can usually be referred to in English using a single word, where is more specific terms often require two or three words.
48When people are asked to rate how much "oddness" different odd numbers have, they.....
- Aare consistent with each other in which odd numbers they consider more odd.
- Brefuse to do the task because it does not make any sense.
- Crate the numbers all the same because there is a clearly defined category boundary for odd numbers.
- Drate some odd numbers as more "odd" than others but these ratings are quite inconsistent from one participant to the next.
49Research shows that children are willing to make suggestions about how to turn a toaster into a coffee pot but deny the possibility of turning a skunk into a raccoon. This is evidence that......
- Acategory membership depends on decisions about which features are essential to the category.
- Bour use of categories is dictated by typicality.
- Cchildren and adults have radically different understandings of categorisation.
- Dcategory membership and typicality ratings can diverge.
50Which of the following is most likely to cause you to draw an inference about a category of animal?
- AA theory about how a feature you have seen in one member of the category might be caused by a feature that all category members share.
- BInformation about a characteristic shared by two members of the category who are quite similar to each other.
- CInformation about an atypical member of that category.
- DInformation about the category of animal higher up in the food chain than one you are considering.
51Which of the following is NOT an attribute of the prototype theory?
- ADefining features.
- BInequality of category members.
- CFuzzy boundaries.
- DGraded membership.
52Which of the following is NOT true about heuristics?
- AOne way to ensure error-free decisions is to use the typicality heuristic.
- BOne example of a heuristic is categorisation via resemblance.
- CThe categorisation heuristic emphasizes superficial characteristics.
- DUsing heuristics is an efficient way to get things done.
53Which of the following is NOT true about Rosch's prototype theory of category membership?
- AIn this theory, the boundaries of the category are specified, rather than the centre of the category.
- BItems that more closely resemble the prototype are perceived to be "better" members of the category than other items.
- CThe prototype for a certain category may vary from person to person.
- DJudgements about an item are made with reference to either the ideal or the average of that category.
54Just because people use prototypes does not mean that it is only information available to them.
- ATrue
- BFalse
55People only use prototypes when there are no clear definitions to fall back on.
- ATrue
- BFalse
56All of the following are problems for the prototype and exemplar accounts of categorisation EXCEPT......
- Aparticipants rating of membership in a novel category change with experience.
- BA counterfeit $20 bill can look identical to a real $20 bill but is not considered money.
- Cparticipants know that the definition of an even number is absolute, but they still give even numbers different ratings of "evenness".
- Dan orange it has been flattened, painted with brown and red stripes, and covered with coconut flakes is still identified as an orange.
57Research suggests that you usually rely on [blank_start]exemplars[blank_end] to aid in categorisation of an unfamiliar concept. In contrast, for a highly familiar concept, you are more likely to rely on [blank_start]both prototypes and exemplars[blank_end] to aid in categorisation.
- Aexemplars
- Bprototypes
- Cboth prototypes and exemplars
- Dboth prototypes and exemplars
- Eprototypes
- Fexemplars
58All of the following are evidence that theories play an important role in conceptual knowledge EXCEPT......
- Aonce people have theories, they largely abandon the use of typicality heuristics.
- Bpeople use theories to help them stretch concepts to encompass new, atypical examples.
- Cpeople learn a new category more easily if the features are coherent.
- Dpeople learn a new category more easily if they are given a theme to explain category membership.
59In a production task, the [blank_start]first[blank_end] category members that a person mentions are also the category members that produce the fastest reaction times in a sentence-verification task.
- Afirst
- Blast
- Cclearest
- Dslowest
60Which of the following examples illustrate how category typicality and judgements of category membership usually go together?
- AA painted sugar infused lemon that has been run over by a truck is still considered a lemon.
- BA perfect counterfeit bill that she has all the features of real money is rejected as payment.
- CA German shepherd is recognised to have all of the features typical of a dog and is quickly recognised as such.
- Dchildren accept the notion that a toaster can be changed into a coffee pot, but not that a skunk can be changed into a raccoon.
61People tend to assume that the properties of artefacts are more predictable than properties of natural kinds.
- ATrue
- BFalse
62Which of the following facts fits LEAST well with the claims of prototype theory?
- AEven when an item is quite different from a category's prototype, it is very easy for people to decide whether it is inside or outside the boundaries of the category.
- BPictures of items similar to the prototype are identified as category members more quickly than pictures of items less similar to the prototype.
- CItems close to the prototype are the easiest and most likely to be mentioned in a production task.
- DWhen making up sentences about the category, people tend to create sentences most appropriate for the prototype of that category, as opposed to a more peripheral member.
63Many people think of a drum is the prototypical percussion instrument. Given this, which of the following results is MOST likely?
- AWhen people are asked which of the two instruments is "more percussiony" they will choose the drum if it is an option.
- BWhen two types of instruments are within the category of percussion instruments, they will be treated equally.
- CThe statement "chimes are percussion instruments" will be verified more quickly than "drums are percussion instruments".
- DWhen asked to create sentences about percussion instruments, participants frequently say things like "I heard a percussion instrument chiming".
64Which of the following facts is explained equally well by prototype and exemplar-based theories?
- ASome items appear to be more typical of a category than others.
- BWhen people change their perspective of a category (e.g. North American birds to Australian birds), their idea of category membership changes.
- CPeople seem to show typicality effects for an unlimited number of categories, as demonstrated by the typical effects for completely ad hoc categories.
- DPeople are able to use information about a category's variability to help judge whether a novel object belongs to that category.
65Once people rely on prototypes, they no longer use exemplars for judging category membership.
- ATrue
- BFalse
66In a standard sentence-verification task, which of the following sentences would produce the slowest response time?
- AA bat is a bird.
- BA Robin is a bird.
- CA peach is a fruit.
- DAn apple is a fruit.
67Which of the following is an extralinguistic cue used for sentence parsing?
- APhysical context.
- BSyntax.
- CMorphology.
- DProsody.
68Children's overregularisation production errors.....
- Aare evidence that speech is learned imitatively.
- Bseem to be caused by an understanding of rules.
- Care extremely rare.
- Dare evidence that speech is learned through a reliance on parental feedback.
69The fact that new words in English rarely start with sound combinations like "tl" or "ks" demonstrates.....
- Athe phonological rules of English.
- Bthe biological basis of English.
- Cthe generativity of English.
- Dthe role of phrase-boundaries in English.
70Which of the following is TRUE about language acquisition?
- AThe fact that children start saying "goed" although they already know the word "went" is easily understood in terms of rule learning.
- BThe fact that children add an "s" to new words they learn implies that language acquisition is imitative.
- CThere is a large impact from whether parents correct their children's grammar.
- DSpecific language impairment is a result of the "poverty of stimulus" of a child's language-learning environment.
71Brain damage producing a disruption in language is called.....
- Aaphasia.
- Bamnesia.
- Cagnosia.
- Dapraxia.
72The hierarchy of linguistic units from smallest to largest is......
- APhonemes, morphemes, words, phrases.
- BPhrases, words, morphemes, phonemes.
- CPhonemes, phrases, words, morphemes.
- DMorphemes, phonemes, phrases, words.
73The only difference between the [p] and the [t] phonemes is...
- Aplace of articulation.
- Bmanner of production.
- Cvoicing.
- Dvoice-onset time.
74Given current evidence, what is the most likely impact of language on thought?
- AOne's language impacts one's thoughts indirectly by impacting memory and attention.
- BOne's language determines one's thought.
- COne's language has no impact on one's thought.
- DOne's language has a permanent impact on one's thought.
75Categorical perception can explain......
- Awhy we more easily detect differences between two phenomic categories than variations within a single category.
- Bwhy we sometimes confuse phonemes when in a noisy environment.
- Chow we identify spaces between words in a continuous speech stream.
- Dwhy certain phoneme combinations are difficult for English speakers to pronounce.
76Which is NOT a strategy that people use to parse sentences?
- AWaiting until the end of the sentence before starting to interpret it.
- BIncorporating the knowledge of what preceded the sentence in the conversation.
- CTending to assume that the most frequent meaning of a word is the one currently intended.
- DChoosing the interpretation that would make the least complex sentence tree.
77Which of the following is an example of a garden-path sentence?
- AThe raft floated down the river sank.
- BShe spent time on the court.
- CThey put a bug on her.
- DTime flies when you're answering multiple-choice questions.
78What would be an example of a speech error that most directly shows the effect of an incorrect morphine choice?
- AI well wish you on your journey.
- BI have classifying many different species on plants.
- CI picked up on the way to class and newspaper.
- DSally sells seashells by the seashore
79Assume that I'm voice sounds have a 60-ms voice onset time (VOT), and voiced sounds have a 0-ms VOT. participants in an experiment would be LEAST likely to hear the difference between a 10-ms VOT and a.....
- A0-ms VOT.
- B70-ms VOT.
- C50-ms VOT.
- D60-ms VOT.
80Which of the following is a function morpheme?
- Asing.
- B-s.
- Cwish.
- Dnoun phrase.
81"The dog attacked the mailman", "The mailman was attacked by the dog". Which of the following is TRUE about these two sentences?
- AThey have the same meaning.
- BThey are recognised with equal speed.
- CThey have the same surface structure.
- DThe second is a garden-path sentence.
82Which of the following statements about generativity is FALSE?
- AMorphemes can be added to words in any order.
- BIt decreases the amount of memorization needed to learn a language.
- CThere is no known limit to the number of new words that can be added to a language.
- DIt often relies on unconscious knowledge.
83Which of the following is NOT true of speech segmentation?
- AIt is made easier by the process of coarticulation, where each phoneme overlaps with the ones before and after it.
- BIt is made easier by the fact that more than half of the speech we hear consists of the 50 most common words in English.
- CSpeech recognition programs can I do understand a lot of speech from one person, or very limited speech from many people.
- DWhen words are taken out of context, they are far more difficult to identify.
84Which of the following is an example of a prescriptive rule of grammar?
- ANever end a sentence in a preposition.
- BPeople virtually never use "s" to pluralise words with voiced final segments.
- CChildren learn to add "-ed" to a word to signify the past tense.
- DAdults find sentences awkward if the sentences are too long.
85Which of the following is evidence in support of linguistic relativity?
- APeople who speak languages with the rich colour vocabularies may perceive colours differently.
- BEnglish speakers and Chinese speakers can easily eliminate the differences in their spatial thinking.
- CAll languages seem to have both of phrase structure and movement rules.
- DIt is easier to remember the concept of a "tree" than a picture of a tree.
86Phrase-structure rules help explain all of the following EXCEPT......
- AWhy English speaking children first learning to speak no more nouns than verbs.
- BWhy "I eat did yesterday" is ungrammatical.
- CWhy in the sentence, "The hungry cow mooed", there is a natural break between cow and "mooed".
- DWhy certain sentences can be interpreted in multiple ways.
87What is the LEAST accurate statement about linguistic universals?
- AThey provide an argument against the necessity of an innate language device.
- BThey are often probabilistic rather than absolute rules.
- CThough there are many similarities across languages, there are also many differences.
- DMany of them concerned features of language that tend to occur together.
88Patient A: "I....w-w-w- went...um...th".
Patient B: "Then the zoo did very wildly to him".
Patient A suffers from damage to [blank_start]Broca's[blank_end] area resulting in [blank_start]nonfluent[blank_end] aphasia. Patient B suffers from damage to [blank_start]Wernicke's[blank_end] area resulting in [blank_start]fluent[blank_end] aphasia.- ABroca's
- BWernicke's
- Cnonfluent
- Dfluent
- EWernicke's
- FBroca's
- Gfluent
- Hnonfluent
89........ rules allow us to generate a sentence's ultimate meaning.
- APhrase structure
- BMovement
- CProsodic
- DMorphological
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