What is Psycholinguistics?

Psycholinguistics is the discipline that investigates and describes the psychological and sosiological processes that make it possible for humans to master and use language.

• True

• False

The study of psycholinguistics can be divided into four main areas...

• Language acquisition

• Language comprehension

• Language production

• Second language acquisition

• All answers are correct

The most famous attempt to account for language processing in a behaviorist tradition comes from B.F. Skinner’s 1957 Verbal Behavior.

• True

• False

Who is successfully argued against verbal behaviorism?

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Noam Chomsky

• Edward Boas

When a friend tells you how great her trip to the beach was and you predict what she is about to say using your background knowledge. You might ask questions such as:

• Was it sunny?

• Were there many people

• Did you play any games on the sand?

This an example of...

• Bottom-Up

• Top-Down

If you were asked whether red cars are more common than yellow cars, you would be able to easily say that red cars are more frequent, even though you’ve probably never stood out on a street and made a tally.

This an example of...

• Automatic processing

• Controlled processing

When you work as a reception in a hotel and a guest wants to make reservation and you listen attentively to every piece of information the future guest provides such as full name, credit card number, phone number, and day of arrival.

This an example of...

• Bottom-Up

• Top-Down