5.2 Reading Quiz Practice

In the word "prepare" each "R" can be considered a what?

• babble

• morpheme

• phoneme

• semantic

Your teachers asks how many uses you can think of for a pencil. She is testing your what?

• Divergent Thinking

• Functional Fixedness

• Availability Heuristic

• Prototype

After seeing a news story about a kidnapping, we are more afraid of kidnapping, even though it is very rare occurrence. Which of the following is the term for this phenomenon?

• Representative Heuristic

• Prototype

• Schema

• Availability Heuristic

Eighteen-month-old Becca is in the telegraphic speech phase. Which of the following best represents something she might say?

• "Mama"

• "Yogurt Please"

• "Katie fall"

• "I love you"

The prefix "pre" in "preview" or the suffix "ed" in "adapted" are examples of what?

• Phoememes

• Morphemes

• Syntax

• Grammar

The idea that language develops because of an inborn tendency to learn the grammar rules of language was proposed by whom?

• Wernicke

• Brocca

• Chomsky

• Sternberg

When asked to think of a "desk," many students think of the desks in their classroom rather than a large desk used by an executive. This illustrates that their school desks have formed their _______ of a desk

• Phonmeme

• Morpheme

• heruristic

• prototype

A phoneme, such as the "c" in cows, is best described as a what?

• unit of sound in language

• form of syntax

• stage of language development

• form of telegraphic speech

Alice significantly underestimated how long it would take to write her term paper because of what?

• belief perseverance

• framing

• intuition

• overconfidence

Benjamin Lee Whorf's linguistic determinism hypothesis relates to what aspect of the power of language?

• How thinking determines language

• how language determines thinking

• the idea of a universal grammar

• the development of language in nonhumans