Psycholinguistics - Week 4 Quiz

Which of the following is TRUE about Broca’s Aphasia?

• A) Patients have fluent but nonsensical speech.

• B) Comprehension is usually impaired.

• C) Speech is halting and word choice is challenging.

• D) Patients have excellent sentence recall.

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

• TRUE

• FALSE

Split-brain patients, whose corpus callosum has been severed, can still label objects held in their left hand without visual input.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In EEG studies, the ___ waveform is associated with semantic surprise, while ___ reflects grammatical processing.

• 1) N400
  2) P600

• 1) N600

  2) P400

• 1) P1

  2) N1

• No significant difference

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

Which of the following best describes a factorial design in an experiment?

• It only includes one independent variable

• It requires each participant to be in all conditions

• It does not use randomization

• It involves multiple levels for each independent variable

Which statement is true about open science practices?

• It restricts access to research data and protocols

• It only applies to theoretical studies

• It discourages sharing data publicly

• It promotes transparency and replication in scientific research

Which of the following methods has high temporal resolution?

• MEG

• fMRI

• EEG

Which brain region is typically activated when grammatical rules are violated, as detected by the P600 component in EEG studies?

• Occipital Lobe

• Broca’s Area

• Hippocampus

• Prefrontal Cortex

Recent research suggests that the core language network includes areas that…

• Only respond to spoken words

• Help process language by storing general rules and meanings

• Don't respond to visual language cues, like written words

• Are used across speaking, reading, and listening