Psychology - Language And Thought
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Question 1 of 20
1. Question
Which of the following can be said to be true of language?
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Question 2 of 20
2. Question
All of the following represent components of natural language use except for:
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Question 3 of 20
3. Question
When related sentences are put togather to make a sensible message, this is referred to as:
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Question 4 of 20
4. Question
Which TWO of the following statements are true of parsing?
1.Psycholinguistics has been especially concerned with how people parse sentences- that is, how they break them down into their correct phonological structures.
2.Parsing has to be done because otherwise, it would be impossible to interpret a sentence to all.
3.The difficulty in understanding some sentences can be ascribed to an initial misinterpretation ; this is called a ‘country walk’.
4.Misparsing a sentence can result in failure in comprehension at all levels.Correct
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Question 5 of 20
5. Question
Which of the following statements about interpretation of language is correct?
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Question 6 of 20
6. Question
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT in terms of the modular view of word-sense retrieval?
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Question 7 of 20
7. Question
Which of the following statements about Swinney’s 1979 experiment is FALSE?
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Question 8 of 20
8. Question
Gibbs’ work revealed many things,but three of the following are false in relation to his finding Which is the CORRECT answer?
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Question 9 of 20
9. Question
The common term used to describe all types of language is loss is:
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Question 10 of 20
10. Question
Which of these statements about scenario research is true?
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Question 11 of 20
11. Question
According to Lakoff, metaphors have a significant influence in how we think and understand our social worlds, Which of the following examples below is not an example of metaphor?
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Question 12 of 20
12. Question
With respect problem-solving which of the following statements is true?
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Question 13 of 20
13. Question
Research studies that examine people’s responses on the Watson Selection test, the military problem puzzle and speak-aloud protocols have demonstrated that reasoning about problems is strongly influenced by:
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Question 14 of 20
14. Question
With respect to anagram problems, which of the following statements are correct?
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Question 15 of 20
15. Question
Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem(Wason,1966)?
1.The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms.
2.In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
3.Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
4.People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.Correct
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Question 16 of 20
16. Question
Which of the following is an example of people’s reliance on the representativeness heuristic to make decisions or judgements?
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Question 17 of 20
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All of the following qualities describe reasoning by intuition except for:
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Question 18 of 20
18. Question
When two groups of participants were each shown a different set of results based on a experiment with rats, both groups reported that the results shown to them were obvious outcomes. This suggests that sometimes things appear to be more obvious than they should. Which cognitive phenomenon can explain this effect?
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Question 19 of 20
19. Question
While considerable research suggests that human’s exhibit relatively poor reasoning ability what reasons have been given to be critical of this research?
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Question 20 of 20
20. Question
The temporary inability to retrieve a word that is well-known to us is referred to as the:
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