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