Chapter 9 - Athabasca Quizz Flashcards
The cognitive-functional approach to language emphasizes that
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speakers typically use language skillfully, which helps listeners to pay attention to the most important part of a message.
speakers realize that people are especially skilled at understanding nested language.
linguistic information is processed by isolated parts of the brain that are not connected with other regions of the brain.
the right hemisphere of the brain functions differently than the left hemisphere.
speakers typically use language skillfully, which helps listeners to pay attention to the most important part of a message.
Which of the following research topics would be most likely to emphasize the discourse aspect of language?
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Do people create shorter sentences when requesting something from a friend, rather than a stranger?
At what age do children begin to create two-word phrases?
Does the phonics approach increase children’s ability to pronounce English words?
Under what circumstances will students be able to identify a theme in a short story?
Under what circumstances will students be able to identify a theme in a short story?
Which of the following students provides the best summary about teaching metacomprehension skills?
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Martina: “The research suggests that teachers should encourage metacomprehension skills, beginning in first grade.”
Johnny: “If students reach college without learning metacomprehension skills, it’s probably too late for them to master these techniques.”
Souren: “Educators are now developing programs to teach metacomprehension skills to students before they reach high school.”
Suzanne: “The research suggests that children who initially learned to read using the phonics method already know metacomprehension skills.”
Souren: “Educators are now developing programs to teach metacomprehension skills to students before they reach high school.”
The indirect-access route in reading emphasizes that
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readers can recognize a word directly from the printed word.
readers can access semantic memory through either the visual route or the sound route.
readers translate a printed word into sound before they can locate information about its meaning.
readers with reading problems try to sound out each word before they recognize it; people without reading problems do not sound out the words.
readers translate a printed word into sound before they can locate information about its meaning.
A key point in Noam Chomsky’s approach to psycholinguistics is an emphasis on
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how children learn language by operant conditioning.
how each language in the world has its own unique set of rules about syntax.
how humans have language skills that are inborn.
how language is closely connected with other cognitive skills.
how humans have language skills that are inborn.
Chapter 9 discussed the self-paced reading task. This task allows researchers to
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to measure eye movements.
sentence comprehension
the amount of time participants look at each word in a sentence.
the pacing style of different readers.
the amount of time participants look at each word in a sentence.
According to the current explanation for how we process an ambiguous word,
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we typically ignore ambiguity until after we have completely processed the sentence.
context constrains the activation of alternative meanings from the very beginning of processing. Therefore, many alternative meanings are never really considered.
activation builds up equally for all meanings of an ambiguous item.
activation initially builds up for the most familiar meanings of a word; then context helps to eliminate the irrelevant meanings.
activation initially builds up for the most familiar meanings of a word; then context helps to eliminate the irrelevant meanings.
Units of language, such as pre-, sound, and -s, are known as
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phonemes.
morphemes.
syntax.
semantics.
morphemes.
In contrast to written language, spoken language is especially likely
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to be spread out across space.
to be controllable with respect to the rate of input.
to require increased demands on working memory.
to have discrete boundaries between words.
to require increased demands on working memory.
Which of the following students provides the best statement about the usefulness of the fMRI technique in examining language?
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Deirdre: “The fMRI technique can detect changes in language that occur relatively rapidly.”
Esmail: “When researchers use the fMRI technique, people can move their heads freely, without harming the quality of the fMRI.”
Sasha: “Unfortunately, the fMRI requires an injection of material that is radioactive.”
Sid: “Unfortunately, the fMRI is less sensitive than other techniques for detecting the subtle aspects of language comprehension.”
Sid: “Unfortunately, the fMRI is less sensitive than other techniques for detecting the subtle aspects of language comprehension.”
