PSY 360 Week 4 Quiz/snaptutorial

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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.

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