中高三unit 6 課外pop quiz

Which of the following is NOT one of the "executive functions"?

• the ability to adjust one's thinking from old situations to new ones

• the attention and motor skills needed to accomplish a task

• the ability to keep one’s basic emotions under control

 

Which of the following is an example of "working memory"?

• You remember the ingredients you’ve already used when making a cake.

• You remember the name of a person you met many years ago.

• You remember the details of an event that happened in your childhood.

 

What is true about the babies from bilingual families in Kovacs and Mehler's study?

• They could understand the meaning of some of the words they heard.

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  They were able to switch their focus when the situation changed.

• They could predict the number of puppets that would appear on the screen.

In which position ([1], [2], or [3]) should this sentence be added to this text from paragraph 7?_______ Nonetheless, their heightened executive functions also apply to other senses, including vision.At seven months of age, babies can’t read yet, so the language skills of bilingual infants depend on hearing the spoken words of their parents. [1] In one version of the experiment, the puppet’s appearance was prompted by three colored shapes, instead of the sound of nonsense words. [2] In these cases, too, the bilingual infants were better at changing their predictive gazes when the puppet started flashing up on a different square. [3]

• [1]

• [2]

• [3]

 

Which of the following is NOT true about the babies in the experiment?

• They were all seven months old.

• They all came from monolingual households.

• They performed equally well in the first experiment.

Kovacs and Mehler were able to determine through their experiment that ________.

• school-age children will improve their executive functions if they start learning a second language

• learning similar languages provides more benefits than learning very different languages

• being exposed to two languages did not cause babies to confuse the different vocabularies

Young children can benefit from being exposed to two languages even before they begin to talk.

• True

• False

• Not given

Being able to reject something you previously learned is an example of "superior mental control."

• True

• False

• Not given

Children who grow up in a bilingual environment can learn a third language faster than monolingual children can learn a second language.

• True

• False

• Not given

 On the whole, cultures in which bilingualism is common have greater mental control than cultures where few people speak a second language.

• True

• False

• Not given