chap 11 review questions

Question 1

example of lowest frequency

Answer 1

word “call”

Question 2

late closure

Answer 2

when a person encounters a new word

Question 3

why does language enable us to communicate

Answer 3

because of rules and structure

Question 4

what is not a key concern for psyholinguistics

Answer 4

meaning

Question 5

what is a way to test word frequency effect

Answer 5

utilize lexical descion task

Question 6

“national bank” and “river bank”

Answer 6

lexical ambiguity

Question 7

cast for a “play” and a cast for a “broken hand”

Answer 7

balanced dominance since both are equally likely

Question 8

considered most “personal” concept

Answer 8

lexicon

Question 9

sematics is to what as meaning is to what

Answer 9

syntax

rule

Question 10

conclusion of creating situation models

Answer 10

readers create perceptions that match the situation described in sentences

Question 11

speech segmentation

Answer 11

picking up words you heard before

Question 12

foundation of lexical priming

Answer 12

meaning

Question 13

example of dominance bias in meaning

Answer 13

season: one of four periods in a year

Question 14

what is not a key to understanding a meaning of an ambiguous term

Answer 14

pronunciation

Question 15

core concept

Answer 15

parsing-grouping

Question 16

garden path sentences

Answer 16

temporary ambiguity

Question 17

repeating “yeah yeah yeah” when agreeing

Answer 17

synatical priming

Question 18

accuratley sharing of stories or info you need what

Answer 18

coherence

Question 19

when visiting hometown and expiercing your old native accent

Answer 19

entertainment

Question 20

a situation model is similar to what

Answer 20

film

Question 21

understanding what a person is going through

Answer 21

theory of mind

Question 22

difficulty percieving music

Answer 22

amusia

Question 23

bringing someone down with their tone

Answer 23

prosody

Question 24

warrens study

Answer 24

listeners tend to report the sentence was not missing any phonemes and tend to innacuretly report the location at the missing phoneme

Question 25

What does the phonemic restoration effect demonstrate?

Answer 25

that meaning can be crucially important to helping us perceive spoken words

Question 26

What conclusion can we draw from instances where different scenes cause different processing of the same sentence?

Answer 26

Content of a scene can affect sentence processing