PSYC112 week 1

Which lobe is the Wernickes area located in?

• Frontal lobe

• parietal lobe

• occipital lobe

• temporal lobe

Smallest unit of sound that changes meaning?

• morpheme

• phoneme

• word

• phrase

"Look at the dog with one eye" - this sentence is an example of what?

• ambiguous sentence

• two surface sentences

• phrase

• one deep structure

Language learning in infants (under 2 years) is assisted by?

• limiting infants exposure to adult language

• using protowords when talking to infants

• engaging in routines associated with language use

• talking loudly and slowly to infants

Smallest to largest - hierarchical order of language

• phrase, morpheme, phoneme, sentence

• phoneme, morpheme, word, phrase

• morpheme, phoneme, word, sentence

• phoneme, word, morpheme, sentence

Which is an example of a function word?

• of

• move

• cut

• house

Becky had a stroke and now struggles to speak in full sentences and rely on content words, what does Becky suffer from?

• Wernickes aphasia

• Alzheimers

• Brocas aphasia

• fatigue

How much does comprehension precede productive vocabulary?

• 2 months

• 4 weeks

• 4 months

• 6 weeks

How many phonemes are there in the English language?

• 30

• 35

• 26

• 40

In the statistical learning studies, which patterns were fixated on more?

• familiar patterns

• novel patterns