This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Psycholinguistics – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Psycholinguistics Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who postulated that the language of an individual reflects his/her psyche/mind? A) Wilhelm Wundt. B) Aristotle. C) Heymann Steinthal. D) Heraclitus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heymann Steinthal. 2. The method developed in times of war because of demands to communicate with warring parties is ..... A) Audiolinguistik method. B) Audiovisual method. C) American Army Method. D) All true. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) American Army Method. 3. Before language performance can become automatic, learners are required to ..... A) Practice. B) Imitate. C) Memorize. D) Remember. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Practice. 4. The study of the ways in which context contributes to meaning A) Morphology. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pragmatics. 5. Which function doesn't belong to imagination? A) Making plans. B) Analyze past situations. C) Making predictions of the future. D) Giving a stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analyze past situations. 6. A person who engages in the practice of using two languages interchangeably is called ..... A) Interferention. B) Bilingual. C) Diglosia. D) Code mixing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bilingual. 7. Discovery learning (learning by doing) is advocated in what theory? A) Nativist. B) Interactionist. C) Behaviorist. D) Cognitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cognitive. 8. What is psycholinguistics concerned with? A) The way in which language is produced and understood. B) The arrangement of words to create well-formed sentences. C) How words are formed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The way in which language is produced and understood. 9. Which factor does not affect the rate and success of second language learning? A) Age. B) Motivation. C) Profession. D) Aptitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Profession. 10. Where (country) was successfully applied the psycholinguistics approach? A) U.K. B) Phillipines. C) Brazil. D) U.S. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brazil. 11. Thoughts make up Language. Without thought, language would not exist. A) Teori Wilhelm van Humboldt. B) Teori L.S. Vygotsky. C) Theory Jean Piaget. D) Sapir-Whorf theories. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theory Jean Piaget. 12. Who is a Swiss linguist who has tried to explain what language really is (linguistics), and how the state of language is in the brain (psychology). A) Otto Jespersen. B) Leonard Bloomfield. C) By Humboldt. D) Ferdinand de Saussure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ferdinand de Saussure. 13. What is not a language acquisition mechanism in children is A) Generalization. B) Imitation. C) Social Cognition. D) Conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generalization. 14. Language Acquisition berarti? A) Bagaimana sebuah bahasa diproses dan dipahami. B) Bagaimana anak-anak memperoleh bahasa pertamanya. C) Bagaimana bahasa baru dipelajari. D) Bagaimana suatu bahasa diproduksi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bagaimana anak-anak memperoleh bahasa pertamanya. 15. Something that will affect the level of knowledge and includes a system of ideas or ideas contained in the human mind. A) Social. B) Speak. C) Thinking. D) Cultured. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cultured. 16. The process of mastering knowledge about the grammar (grammar) of the mother tongue which is mastered by the child unconsciously is A) Performance. B) Semantics. C) Competency. D) Phonology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Competency. 17. Which mneumonic mechanism is this?Forgetting some or all information. A) Obliteration. B) Recollection. C) Memorization. D) Preservation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obliteration. 18. The scientific study of the human mind and behavior A) Cognitive psychology. B) Cognitive science. C) Linguistics. D) Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Psychology. 19. Providing language rules to students by using systematic examples, both for correct and more complete student utterances is the meaning of ..... A) Frequency. B) Expansion. C) Systematic. D) Correction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expansion. 20. Language is used by humans for communication. A) Language is symbolic. B) Language is arbitrary. C) Language is social. D) Language is vocal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Language is social. 21. When was brain damage associated with language loss for the first time? A) 18th century. B) 20th century. C) 1500 AD. D) Ancient times (3000 BC). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ancient times (3000 BC). 22. The hypothesis which states that personality influences the language acquisition process is ..... A) Motivation. B) Talent. C) Affective filter. D) Affective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Affective. 23. What is one factor that affects language learning? A) Pronunciation. B) Habits. C) Aptitude. D) Attitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aptitude. 24. The scientific study of language-analysis of form, meaning, and context A) Linguistics. B) Cognitive science. C) Neurolinguistics. D) Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Linguistics. 25. Which of the following is a "garden path" sentence? A) The child read a book. B) The florist sent the flowers was pleased. C) The dogs ran outside. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The florist sent the flowers was pleased. 26. The study of how different parts of the brain are involved in performing different functions related to language A) Psycholinguistics. B) Cognitive science. C) Cognitive psychology. D) Neurolinguistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neurolinguistics. 27. What is the main cause of Conduction Aphasia? A) Damage on the upper posterior temporal gyrus. B) Damage on the left inferior frontal gyrus. C) Damage on Broca's area. D) Damage on the fibre tracts of the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Damage on the fibre tracts of the brain. 28. According to which theorist do thought and language originate independently, but later merge? A) Vygostsky. B) Piaget. C) Chomsky. D) Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vygostsky. 29. Which is not the main focus of psycholinguistic studies? A) How children acquire their first language. B) How a language is processed and understood. C) How languages experience shifts and extinction. D) How a language is produced. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How languages experience shifts and extinction. 30. In 1954 a book was published entitled Psycholinguistics: A Survey of Theory and Research Problems written by: A) Jacob Robert. B) Pronko H. C) Charles E. Osgood. D) Ferdinand de Saussure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles E. Osgood. 31. Psycholinguistics of this generation argues that in the language process it is not the language grains that are obtained, but the rules and the system of rules. is a look at the ..... generation A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 32. The study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language A) Phonology. B) Pragmatics. C) Morphology. D) Morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morphology. 33. A mother uses different vocabulary to talk to her baby compared to the vocabulary she uses when talking with her father. This component of language is called ..... ? A) Syntax. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) Morphology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pragmatics. 34. Which menumonic mechanism is this?You make sure that the memory remains as it is, and does not change or disappear. A) Reminiscence. B) Preservation. C) Recognition. D) Obliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Preservation. 35. Which field of linguistics deals with the study of language and ethnic types including behaiour? A) Developmental psycholinguistics. B) Ethnolinguistics. C) Clinical linguistics. D) Biolinguistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethnolinguistics. 36. Unit of speech sound that is capable of distinguishing one word from another A) Phonology. B) Lexicon. C) Phoneme. D) Morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phoneme. 37. Theory which states language is constructed in a sociocultural context, depending on cognitive/ environmental factors. A) Contextual. B) Cognitive. C) Behaviourist. D) Innatist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contextual. 38. Which one is NOT an aspect of language learning of the Innatist? A) Grammatical judgement. B) Critical Period. C) Universal Grammar. D) Habit formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Habit formation. 39. Which field of linguistics is particularly interested in the brain's control over the process of speech and understanding? A) Cognitive science. B) Psycholinguistics. C) Cognitive psychology. D) Neurolinguistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neurolinguistics. 40. Propulsive speech is usually found in people with ..... disease where damage occurs to the brain ducts which causes the muscles to become shaky, stiff, and weak A) Resonatal. B) Mutism. C) Multifactorial. D) Parkinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parkinson. 41. The theory that forms the basis for developing audiolingual and audiovisual methods is ..... A) BEHAVIORISTIC. B) Naturalistic. C) Nativist. D) Cognitivists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BEHAVIORISTIC. 42. Disorders that cause the sound produced to be nasal. As a result of the ..... factor A) Resonance. B) Lingual. C) Laryngeal. D) Cognitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resonance. 43. Which of the following is used to describe objective reflection on the nature of language? A) Psycholinguistics. B) Morphological pragmatics. C) Metalinguistic reasoning. D) Linguistic relativity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metalinguistic reasoning. 44. This concerns with the study of speech sounds. A) Syntax. B) Phonology. C) Morphology. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phonology. 45. Two language learning elements usually examined by Psycholinguistics are? A) Time of tasks-use of grammar. B) Language comprehension-type of task. C) Type of task-language mistakes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language comprehension-type of task. 46. One of Krashen's hypotheses which states that listening is very important in language acquisition is ..... A) Acquisition and learning hypothesis. B) Monitors hypothesis. C) Input Hypothesis. D) The Innate Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Input Hypothesis. 47. In most right handed individuals, specialized language areas of the brain are in the ..... . A) Frontal lobes. B) Right hemisphere. C) Left hemisphere. D) Occipital lobes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Left hemisphere. 48. Specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive mental and behavioral health care for individuals and families A) Cognitive psychology. B) Neurolinguistics. C) Clinical psychology. D) Psycholinguistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clinical psychology. 49. It requires the creation of situations that allow knowledge to be internalized subconsciously. A) Development. B) Learning. C) Mastery. D) Acquisition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acquisition. 50. Subtractive bilingualism is not associated with: A) Loss of identity. B) A sense that one's language and culture are inferiority. C) The home language being replaced by the L2. D) Positive views toward one's home language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive views toward one's home language. 51. What is the smallest unit of language? A) Vocabulary. B) Letter. C) Morpheme. D) Phoneme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morpheme. 52. The list of words in our heads A) Semantics. B) Grammar. C) Phonology. D) Lexicon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lexicon. 53. When a student's first language continues to be developed while they're learning their second language is called ..... A) Additive bilingual. B) Subtractive bilingual. C) Divided bilingual. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Additive bilingual. 54. Which factors do not affect the speed of language acquisition? A) Talent. B) Output. C) Attitude. D) Motivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Output. 55. The language used by a community group in a certain area that is in two certain languages is ..... A) Ethnic language. B) Local language. C) First language. D) Pidgin language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pidgin language. 56. An editing expression is A) I mean. B) Mmm. C) Uhhh. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I mean. 57. Consciousness is ..... because we can't think about nothing, we need to have an object/subject to think about or something to process. A) Ideal. B) Idea-centered. C) Intentional. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intentional. 58. Conditioning mechanisms or habituation of speech heard by children and associated with objects or events that occur. This mechanism was proposed by A) Emmon Bach. B) B.F Skinner. C) Noam Chomsky. D) Abdullah Charer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B.F Skinner. 59. One of the pioneers of Psycholinguistics was Jacob Robert who wrote a book entitled An Objective Psychology of Grammar in A) 1936. B) 1934. C) 1935. D) 1939. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1936. 60. All languages have their system of arrangement. A) Language is symbolic. B) Language is arbitrary. C) Language is vocal. D) Language is systematic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Language is systematic. Next →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesPsycholinguistics Quiz 2 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books