Psych 105 Ch.9

"I just bombed my psychology exam", your friend tells you. You understand that your friend did not just commit an act of terrorism. What aspect of language does this illustrate?

• generativity

• semantics

• syntax

• bottom-up processing

What is meant by deep structure of a sentence?

• All the grammar and syntax is correctly formatted

• The sentence evokes deeper emotion in the reader

• All the phonemes and morphemes that make up a sentence

• The underlying meaning of the sentence

True or False: a sentence can have multiple deep structures

• True

• False

How would this word be broken up into morphemes: decriminalizes

• de-crim-inal-ize-s

• decriminal-ize-s

• de-criminal-ize-s

• de-crim-inal-izes

True or False: We have more phonemes than morphemes in the English language

• True

• False

What is meant by top-down processing?

• We interpret sensory information using expectations and previous experience

• The individual elements of sensory information are used to interpret it

• The way language influences our thinking and perception

• Translating visual patterns into auditory codes

The ability to use pragmatics to understand language is an example of..?

• bottom-up processing

• speech segmentation

• semantics

• top-down processing

Language Comprehension occurs in:

• Broca's area

• Wernicke's area

Female patient A and male patient B both have similar damage to their left hemispheres. Which situation is most likely?

• They both have intact language abilities

• They both have similar aphasic symptoms

• Patient A has worse aphasic symptoms than patient B

• Patient B has worse aphasic symptoms than patient A

All of the following are true except

• Children master language without formal instruction

• Languages often differ in their deep structure

• Infants can discriminate sounds specific to their native language by 6-12 months

• The language acquisition device (LAD) is innate