Language and the Brain
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What is the primary goal of psycholinguistics?

  • To develop a universal language for all humans
  • To examine the cultural influences on language acquisition
  • To study the biological basis of language production
  • To discover the psychological process by which humans acquire and process language (correct)
  • What is the term for the area in the frontal lobe responsible for language production?

  • Skinner's area
  • Chomsky's area
  • Wernicke's area
  • Broca's area (correct)
  • What is the term for the study of the meaning of language?

  • Syntax
  • Phonology
  • Semantics (correct)
  • Phonetics
  • What is the term for the process by which humans learn language?

    <p>Language acquisition</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the internal mental dictionary of words?

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

    Who proposed that language is learned through reinforcement?

    <p>B.F. Skinner</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the process called when an error signal is sent back through the network?

    <p>Back propagation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the impairment in which a person is unable to identify one type of object but can identify others?

    <p>Category-specific memory impairment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the approach that proposes that there are specific neural circuits in the brain for specific categories?

    <p>Semantic Category Approach</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the phenomenon where animals tend to share many properties?

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

    What is the approach that states that our knowledge of concepts is based on the reactivation of sensory and motor processes?

    <p>Embodied Approach</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the correspondence between words related to specific parts of the body and the location of brain activity?

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

    What is the rate at which language occurs?

    <p>200 words per minute</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the principle that states that a person's parsing mechanism assumes a new word is part of the current phrase?

    <p>The Principle of Late Closure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the approach to parsing that suggests information in addition to syntax participates in processing?

    <p>The Constraint-Based Approach</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What paradigm is used to determine how information in a scene influences sentence processing?

    <p>The Visual World Paradigm</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of construction occurs when the relative pronoun takes the place of the subject of the clause?

    <p>Subject-Relative Construction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the factor that can influence language processing, according to the Constraint-Based Approach?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

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