Chapter 10

Question 1

An intended reference in a sentence is an ________; the process by which a listener draws connections between concepts is called an ________.

Answer 1

implication; inference

Question 2

In an online comprehension reading task, poor readers tend to return to previous words that they have already read to a much greater extent than better readers. This is called

Answer 2

regressive movements

Question 3

This assumption that guides much of the work interpreting eye movements states that the pattern of eye movements directly reflects the complexity of the underlying cognitive processes.

Answer 3

eye-mind

Question 4

In metacomprehension, people tend to spend large amounts of time trying to learn information that is too far beyond their current level of knowledge, otherwise known as the

Answer 4

bad judgement of learning effect
region of proximal learning
labor-in-vain effect

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a dimension of Zwann’s Event Indexing Model for situation models?

Answer 5

Practicality

Question 6

Reading times slow down and comprehension decreases when readers encounter too many direct references instead of an anaphoric reference. This phenomenon is known as the

Answer 6

repeated name penalty
indirect reference penalty
reverse implication effect

Question 7

This idea states that participants in a conversation implicitly assume that all speakers are following the conversational maxims.

Answer 7

cooperative principle

Question 8

Which one of the following is NOT a conversational rule proposed by Grice (1975)?

Answer 8

pitch

Question 9

When interpreting comprehension as mental structure building, the two control mechanisms that link up with the process of spreading activations are _________ and _________.

Answer 9

enhancement; suppression

Question 10

When comprehending references and their antecedents, the advantage of ________ is more persistent than the advantage of __________.

Answer 10

first mention; clause recency