Ch. 11 quiz PSY 410

Which of the following is a nonverbal component of communication?

Theory of mind

Within the realm of conversational speech, knowledge refers to the

previously understood information that we bring into the conversation.

One of Chomsky's most persuasive arguments for refuting Skinner's theory of language acquisition was his observation that children

produce sentences they have never heard.

Coherence refers to the

representation of the text in a reader's mind so that information in one part of the text is related to information in another part of the text.

In the context of language, another term for "heuristics" is ______

rules

The constraint-based approach to parsing states that

semantics is activated as a sentence is being read.

Syntax is the

rules for combining words into sentences.

Dictionaries commonly list the multiple definitions of a particular word in a numbered list, with the first definition as #1, the next definition as #2, and so on. Which concept does this reflect?

Meaning dominance

The given-new contract is a method for creating

comprehension between a speaker and a listener in a conversation.

Imagine you are interpreting a pair of sentences such as "The sidewalk was covered with ice" and "Ramona fell down." The kind of inference we use to link these sentences together would most likely be a(n) ____________________ inference.

causal

In the lexical decision task, participants are asked to

decide whether a string of letters is a word or a nonword.

Noam Chomsky proposed that

humans are genetically programmed to acquire and use language.

The word frequency effect refers to the fact that we respond more

slowly to low-frequency words than high-frequency words.

Most of the coherence in text is created by

inference

Lilo can't wait for school to start. This year is the first time she gets to take a foreign language class, and she is taking Japanese. Dr. Nabuto is a professor interested in studying how people learn additional languages later in life, and he is including Lilo's class in his research. Dr. Nabuto is most likely studying

language acquisition.

B.F. Skinner, the modern champion of behaviorism, proposed that language is learned through

reinforcement.