Key Properties of Language Quiz
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What property of language allows for the creation of sentences of unlimited length?

  • Open-endedness
  • Recursiveness (correct)
  • Complexity
  • Displacement
  • Which property of language refers to the ability to refer to abstract concepts or future events?

  • Displacement (correct)
  • Recursiveness
  • Arbitrariness
  • Open-endedness
  • What animal communication systems lack features like tense markers and parts of speech?

  • Crows
  • Parrots
  • Monkeys
  • Dolphins (correct)
  • Which level of language organization involves the sound patterns of language?

    <p>Phonological level</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What property of language states there is no inherent connection between the sound of a word and its meaning?

    <p>Arbitrariness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which property of language allows it to be independent of auditory or speech systems?

    <p>Modality-independence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the two levels of processing proposed by Craik & Lockhart in 1972?

    <p>Shallow processing and deep processing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for information that stays in our memory for brief periods of time, approximately 10 to 15 seconds?

    <p>Short-term memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of long-term memory refers to autobiographical information that can be explicitly accessed?

    <p>Episodic memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the phenomenon where rereading text feels easier due to increased familiarity, rather than actual learning?

    <p>Illusions of Learning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which hemisphere of the brain is language predominantly lateralized in most right-handed humans?

    <p>Left hemisphere</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of memory involves knowledge of facts that cannot be traced to a specific event, but can be explicitly accessed?

    <p>Semantic memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

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