Question 1

Segmenting the boundaries between words is a particularly difficult computational problem in

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A)  reading.
B)  writing.
C)  speech perception.
D)  prosody. C

Question 2

An early ERP component associated with morphosyntactic violations is the

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A)  LAN.
B)  N400.
C)  MMN.
D)  P600. A

Question 3

________ is a general term for deficits in language comprehension and production that occur as the result of brain injury.

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A)  Alexia
B)  Aphasia
C)  Agrammatism
D)  Anomia

Question 4

How can the event-related potential (ERP)technique be applied to language? Describe two ERP components that have been studied in a psycholinguistic context,and give examples of the kinds of stimuli that elicit them.

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Question 5

The information that a listener derives from the speech rhythm and pitch of the speaker's voice is referred to as morphological.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

What is the difference between Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia? Where are Broca's area and Wernicke's area located in the brain?

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Question 7

Damasio and colleagues (1996) examined the effects of damage to three brain regions in the inferior temporal lobe: TP,IT,and IT+ (moving anterior to posterior) .Which of the following did they find?

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A)  Damage to the left temporal pole (TP) was correlated with deficits in retrieving words for tools.
B)  Damage to the left inferotemporal region (IT) was correlated with deficits in retrieving words for specific people.
C)  Damage to the left posterior inferotemporal/anterior occipital region (IT+) was correlated with deficits in retrieving words for tools.
D)  Damage to the right inferotemporal region (IT) was correlated with deficits in retrieving words for specific people.

Question 8

________ is to the meaning of a word as ________ is to the spelling of a word.

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A)  Orthography / phonology
B)  Phonology / prosody
C)  Prosody / semantics
D)  Semantics / orthography

Question 9

The principle of minimal attachment argues that syntactic analysis of a sentence

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A)  proceeds in such a way that the smallest number of syntactic nodes must be computed.
B)  begins as soon as the first speech sound in the sentence is perceived.
C)  is primarily based on the analysis of the lexemes that constitute that sentence.
D)  requires the use of specific,distinct information-processing modules in the brain.

Question 10

A normal adult speaker has passive knowledge of about 50,000 words.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The German neurologist Wernicke found that injury to this region of the brain resulted in poor language comprehension and nonsensical but relatively fluent speech.

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A)  The left arcuate fasciculus
B)  The left posterior and superior temporal lobe
C)  The right inferior frontal lobe
D)  The right medial temporal lobe

Question 12

The speech of people with Broca's aphasia is usually slow and effortful and consists of primarily concrete words,while words that serve grammatical functions are omitted.This type of speech output is called

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A)  word salad.
B)  telegraphic speech.
C)  spectral speech.
D)  paraphasic speech.

Question 13

A patient's symptoms include poor spoken and written comprehension but fluent and reasonably grammatical speech output.Which part of this person's brain is most likely damaged?

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A)  The anterior language areas in the right hemisphere
B)  The posterior language areas in the right hemisphere
C)  The anterior language areas in the left hemisphere
D)  The posterior language areas in the left hemisphere

Question 14

The immediate assignment of syntactic structure of incoming words is known as parsing.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

A person's symptoms include poor spoken and written comprehension but fluent and reasonably grammatical speech output.What is the most probable diagnosis?

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A)  Acquired alexia
B)  Conduction aphasia
C)  Wernicke's aphasia
D)  Broca's aphasia

Question 16

The term auditory neighborhood refers to

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A)  the range of frequencies stimulated at the cochlea by a pure sine wave tone.
B)  a region of tonotopically organized cortex in the superior temporal lobe.
C)  the number of words that differ from a target word by only one phoneme.
D)  a set of words that are morphological inflections and derivations of each other.

Question 17

Under certain circumstances,when the conceptual representation of an item is activated,there is subsequent difficulty activating the corresponding word form in the mental lexicon,even though other information about the item can be accessed.This phenomenon is called

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A)  minimal attachment.
B)  dysarthria.
C)  lemma interference.
D)  the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

Question 18

An aphasic person who makes semantic paraphasia errors in her speech might say "________" when she actually intends to say "________."

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A)  kit / cat
B)  am / is
C)  cow / horse
D)  spin / snip

Question 19

Which of the following statements represents the LEAST consensus among psycholinguists?

Accepted Answer

A)  Semantic knowledge is propositional and not perceptual.
B)  Having a mental store of word meanings is crucial to language comprehension.
C)  Syntactic priming occurs during language comprehension.
D)  Psycholinguistic questions can be addressed using event-related potentials.

Question 20

Recent studies have shown that the lesion associated with persistent severe Wernicke's aphasia may have to include not only Wernicke's area itself,but also

Accepted Answer

A)  Broca's area.
B)  the analogous region of cortex in the right hemisphere.
C)  the white matter tracts below Wernicke's area.
D)  the arcuate fasciculus.

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The principle of minimal attachment argues that syntactic analysis of a sentence

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The speech of people with Broca's aphasia is usually slow and effortful and consists of primarily concrete words,while words that serve grammatical functions are omitted.This type of speech output is called

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The term auditory neighborhood refers to

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