PSYC 100 Quiz 4
Our memories from childhood often involve not only visual information but olfactory information as well. This is because the olfactory cortex is located near the
limbic system
Language is based on basic sound units called ________.
phonemes
The name given to the sense of our body position is
the kinesthetic sense
According to research, which of the following aspects of language is the least susceptible to the effects of age?
vocabulary
Which of the following represents the most accurate statement about how children learn language?
comprehension of words precedes production
When light enters the eye, it first passes through what structure?
cornea
According to Donald Broadbent's research, selective attention acts as a
filter
As the number of people talking in a room increases, the stimulus intensity needed to detect a change in the number of people talking becomes
greater
According to famed linguist Noam Chomsky, humans have an innate ability to understand and produce language through a device he called
language acquisition device (LAD)
The best predictor of whether someone will achieve fluency in a second language is
age of aquisition
The processing of sensory information that occurs below the level of conscious awareness is called
subliminal perception
The rules that determine how sounds and words can be combined and used to communicate meaning within a language are collectively known as
syntax