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Practice Quiz 9 - Language

Authored by Camila Pineda

Social Studies

12th Grade

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Practice Quiz 9 - Language
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which theory suggests that humans have an innate ability to acquire language?

Nativist Theory

Social Learning Theory

Behaviorist Theory

Connectionist Theory

Structuralist Theory

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who proposed the idea of a "Language Acquisition Device" in humans?

B.F. Skinner

Sigmund Freud

Carl Rogers

Noam Chomsky

William James

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What term describes the smallest unit of meaning in a language?

Syntax

Phoneme

Morpheme

Lexeme

Semantics

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which theory posits that the best example of a category is stored in memory?

Prototype Theory

Nativist Theory

Linguistic Relativity

Behaviorist Theory

Exemplar Theory

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who introduced the concept of "family resemblance" in categorization?

Benjamin Whorf

Steven Pinker

Noam Chomsky

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Eleanor Rosch

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which theory argues that all examples that fit in a category are stored in memory?

Linguistic Relativity

Nativist Theory

Behaviorist Theory

Exemplar Theory

Prototype Theory

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the term for the rules that dictate the order and combination of words to form sentences?

Syntax

Phonology

Morphology

Semantics

Pragmatics

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