WEEK 5: Language

Question 1

The way that we use and understand language in everyday life is known as what?

1. A sentence
2. Noun
3. Discourse
4. Determiner

Answer 1

Discourse

Question 2

Language is constructed from a series of defined units;
What are Phonemes?

1. Organised sequences of words that express a thought or intention.
2. The smallest units of sound within speech
3. Combinations of words that act as a unit to convey meaning.
4. The smallest combination of phonemes that may contain meaning. These may be words or word elements (e.g. prefixes and suffixes)

Answer 2

The smallest units of sound within speech

Question 3

Language is constructed from a series of defined units;
What is a morphemes?

1. Organised sequences of words that express a thought or intention.
2. The smallest units of sound within speech
3. Combinations of words that act as a unit to convey meaning.
4. The smallest combination of phonemes that may contain meaning. These may be words or word elements (e.g. prefixes and suffixes)

Answer 3

The smallest combination of phonemes that may contain meaning. These may be words or word elements (e.g. prefixes and suffixes)

Question 4

Language is constructed from a series of defined units; What are phrases?

1. Organised sequences of words that express a thought or intention.
2. The smallest units of sound within speech
3. Combinations of words that act as a unit to convey meaning.
4. The smallest combination of phonemes that may contain meaning. These may be words or word elements (e.g. prefixes and suffixes)

Answer 4

Combinations of words that act as a unit to convey meaning

Question 5

Language is constructed from a series of defined units; What are sentences?

1. Organised sequences of words that express a thought or intention.
2. The smallest units of sound within speech
3. Combinations of words that act as a unit to convey meaning.
4. The smallest combination of phonemes that may contain meaning. These may be words or word elements (e.g. prefixes and suffixes)

Answer 5

Organised sequences of words that express a thought or intention.

Question 6

What is telegraphic speech?

1. In the first year of life
2. Where young children omit all but the essential words

Answer 6

Where young children omit all but the essential words

Question 7

What is the study of the mental processes by which the information we receive from the environment is modified, made meaningful, stored, retrieved, used and communicated to others?

1. Developmental psychology
2. Cognitive psychology
3. Clinical psychology
4. Health psychology

Answer 7

Cognitive psychology

Question 8

What is it called when mechanisms for receiving information, representing it with symbols, and manipulating it?

1. Information processing system
2. Thinking
3. Reaction time

Answer 8

Information processing system

Question 9

What is the manipulation of mental representations?

1. Information processing system
2. Thinking
3. Reaction time

Answer 9

Thinking

Question 10

What is the time
between the presentation of a stimulus and an overt response to it?

1. Information processing system
2. Thinking
3. Reaction time

Answer 10

Reaction time

Question 11

What is described as a small, temporary change in EEG voltage in the brain that is caused by some stimulus

1. Scientific analysis
2. Evoked potential
3. Neuroimaging

Answer 11

Evoked potential

Question 12

What is the category of objects, events or ideas that have common properties

1. Prototype
2. Natural concept
3. Proposition
4. Concept

Answer 12

Concept

Question 13

What is a member of a natural concept that possesses all or most of its characteristic features

1. Prototype
2. Natural concept
3. Proposition
4. Concept

Answer 13

Prototype

Question 14

What is the mental representation of the relationship between concepts?

1. Prototype
2. Natural concept
3. Proposition
4. Concept

Answer 14

Proposition