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History of Psycho-/Neurolinguistics

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which processes does psycholinguistics focus on?

a)

Encoding and decoding

b)

Message

c)

Intentive behavior

d)

Interpretive behavior

2.

Which of these was not a root of psycholinguistics?

a)

Interest about how language originated

b)

Experiments about language in the brain

c)

Interest in sign language

d)

Language acquisition in children

3.

What is phylogenesis?

a)

speech development in the moment

b)

evolution of language

c)

the birth of a tribe

d)

speech development from childhood

4.

What is ontogenesis?

a)

speech development in the moment

b)

evolution of language

c)

the birth of a tribe

d)

speech development from childhood

5.

Which of these is not a theory of language origins?

a)

Bow-wow

b)

Yo-he-ho

c)

Pooh-pooh

d)

Aua

6.

What is synergastic theory of language origin?

a)

Language emerged by imitating sounds around

b)

Language emerged from working together in a rhythm

c)

Language emerged from involuntarily expressing emotions

d)

Language emerged from singing songs

7.

How was the idea that you can understand a personality from one's face called?

a)

Psycholinguistics

b)

Phrenology

c)

Phraseology

d)

Physiognomy

8.

How was the idea that you can study personality from one's skull called?

a)

Psycholinguistics

b)

Phraseology

c)

Phrenology

d)

Physiognomy

9.

What is not one of the 4 major parts of the brain, according to Flourens?

a)

Cerebellum

b)

Medulla

c)

Hippocampus

d)

Thalamus

10.

What was Flourens's argument against localization?

a)

There is loss of speech only in patients with left hemiplegia

b)

There is loss of speech only in patients with right hemiplegia

c)

You can cut out a piece of cortex in any place and the patient will not lose brain function

d)

Language is in the anterior lobes

11.

How did Dax prove language localization in the left hemisphere?

a)

Gathered many cases with loss of speech after right hemiplegia and no loss after left hemiplegia

b)

Gathered many cases with loss of speech after left hemiplegia and no loss after right hemiplegia

c)

Showed a lesion in the 3rd gyrus of the left frontal lobe correlated with speech loss

d)

Showed a lesion in the 1st temporal gyrus correlated with speech loss

12.

What was Broca's contribution?

a)

Gathered many cases with loss of speech after right hemiplegia and no loss after left hemiplegia

b)

Gathered many cases with loss of speech after left hemiplegia and no loss after right hemiplegia

c)

Showed a lesion in the 3rd gyrus of the left frontal lobe correlated with speech loss

d)

Showed a lesion in the 1st temporal gyrus correlated with speech loss

13.

What happens when a-a1 is damaged?

a)

Difficulty to connect words grammatically

b)

Difficulty to understand speech

c)

Conduction aphasia

d)

Difficulty to program motor movements

14.

What was Lichtheim's contribution?

a)

Added the conceptual center to Broca's diagram

b)

Added the writing center to Wernicke's diagram

c)

Added the conceptual center to Wernicke's diagram

d)

Added the lip reading center to Broca's diagram

15.

What is special about a functional diagram?

a)

It shows brain anatomy

b)

It is a diagram of language functions

c)

Everything is drawn exactly where it is in the brain

d)

It is unrelated to actual location in the brain