midterm review

Type one of Marr's levels of analysis.

For which Hockett’s design feature are phonesthemes a problem?

• Arbitrariness

• Specialisation

• Learnability

• Rapid fading

Language can be used to say things that have never been said before (and yet those things are understandable to the listener).

• Productivity

• Specialisation

• Semanticity

• Duality of patterning

Language can be used to refer to or describe itself.

• Reflexiveness

• Interchangeability

• Semanticity

• Displacement

There are two people giving away food. One has a bucket over their head and the other doesn’t. Which person would a child ask for food (in most cases)?

• Person with bucket

• Person without bucket

• Both equally

• Neither

There are two people giving away food. One has a bucket over their head and the other doesn’t. Which person would an ape ask for food (in most cases)?

• Person with bucket

• Person without bucket

• Both equally

• Neither

What is the awareness between two or more individuals that they are paying attention to the same thing?

If all independent variables are at most ordinal in nature, we have a ___ design.

Lateralization of brain functions suggests that language processing is predominantly in the right hemisphere for most people.

• True

• False

If a researcher stops collecting data as soon as they achieve a statistically significant result, this practice is known as...

• Data peeking

• Biased stopping

• HARKing

• Experimental thresholding