This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Psycholinguistics – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Psycholinguistics Quiz 2 (56 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Disorders due to organ imperfection are as follows. except A) Deaf. B) Blind. C) Tunawisma. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tunawisma. 2. "Give cookie" is an utterance made in which stage. A) Holophrastic. B) Blabbling. C) Telegraphic. D) Two-Word. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two-Word. 3. It is the study of the patterns which dictate how words are combined to form sentences. A) Phonology. B) Pragmatics. C) Syntax. D) Morphology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 4. What is the name of the scientific study of the human mind and behavior? A) Linguistics. B) Cognitive psychology. C) Cognitive science. D) Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Psychology. 5. The study of the mental representations and processes involved in language use A) Psycholinguistics. B) Neurolinguistics. C) Lexicon. D) Cognitive psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Psycholinguistics. 6. Consciousness is ..... because it's opposed to the material world, it's independent from the world of objects. A) Intentional. B) Idea-centered. C) Ideal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ideal. 7. The linguistic and philosophical study of meaning A) Semantics. B) Syntax. C) Morphology. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semantics. 8. What factors influence the occurrence of code mixing and interference? A) Slang. B) First language. C) Second language. D) Mother tongue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First language. 9. The interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes (of language, perception, memory, attention, reasoning, & emotion) A) Clinical psychology. B) Cognitive science. C) Psycholinguistics. D) Clinical psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cognitive science. 10. According to Chomsky, children ..... A) Are born already knowing a language. B) Learn through imitation. C) Are born with an instinct or drive for language learning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Are born with an instinct or drive for language learning. 11. This is concerned with the role of context in the interpretation of meaning. A) Semantics. B) Pragmatics. C) Phonology. D) Morphology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pragmatics. 12. The approach used in the 1994 curriculum and KTSP is ..... A) Audiolingual approach. B) Communicative approach. C) Cognitive approach. D) Audiovisual Approach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Communicative approach. 13. The set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, specifically word order A) Phonology. B) Morphology. C) Syntax. D) Psycholinguistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 14. The retrieval of a word depends on ..... A) The pauses you make. B) Your mental Lexicon. C) Frequency and Predictability. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frequency and Predictability. 15. Language and culture and social interaction are the two factors affecting the cognitive development of a person according to ..... A) Chomsky. B) Vgotsky. C) Mansky. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vgotsky. 16. Which region in the brain is responsible for the production of language? A) Corpus Callosum. B) Cerebrum. C) Wernicke's Area. D) Broca's Area. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Broca's Area. 17. Instead of saying, "I'm not going, " the child says, "No me go." This component of language is called ..... ? A) Syntax. B) Pragmatics. C) Semantics. D) Morphology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 18. Who was the first to introduce the term psycholinguistics? A) Nicholas Henry. B) Eric Lenneberg. C) Jacob Robert. D) Krashen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jacob Robert. 19. This deals with the meaning of words and sentences. A) Morphology. B) Semantics. C) Phonology. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morphology. 20. Which areas does psycholinguistics comprise? A) First language acquisition. B) Second language acquisition. C) Language production. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 21. Whats is Phsycholinguistics? A) It is the scientific study of language. B) It is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language. C) It is the science of behavior and mind. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language. 22. When children are exposed to additional languages at age three or older, they are considered ..... A) Successive bilingualism. B) Simultaneous bilingualism. C) Receptive bilingualism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Successive bilingualism. 23. Which type of memory is this?It can be used to remember a phone number that has just been recited, but after you dial it you completely erase it from your memory. A) Sensory. B) Short-term. C) Long-term. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short-term. 24. The systematic organization of sounds in languages A) Phoneme. B) Pragmatics. C) Phonology. D) Morphology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phonology. 25. An example of a Verbal filler is ..... A) Uuhmm. B) Eehhh. C) Well. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Well. 26. The recognition that children who pretend they are reading or writing understand a lot about literacy belongs to which approach A) Reading readiness. B) Emergent literacy. C) Phonemic awareness. D) Phonetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emergent literacy. 27. A language that has a consistent relationship between graphemes and sounds can be said to A) Be logosyllabic. B) Have a shallow or transparent orthography. C) Have a deep orthography. D) Be phonologically regular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have a shallow or transparent orthography. 28. Smallest unit of language that carries meaning A) Phonology. B) Morphology. C) Morpheme. D) Phoneme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morpheme. 29. Mental symptoms that can determine the relationship between something we know or an activity that involves our brain working. A) Think. B) Speak. C) Social. D) Cultured. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Think. 30. Mental block can cause a person to be less successful in acquiring a second language. Mental blocks are also called ..... A) Defensive. B) Innate nature. C) Affective attitude. D) Affective Filters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Affective Filters. 31. It is the study of word structures, especially the relationships between related words. A) Pragmatics. B) Syntax. C) Phonology. D) Morphology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Morphology. 32. A set of semantic, syntactic, morphological, and phonological categories and rules that underlie humans' ability to speak and understand A) Lexicon. B) Grammar. C) Stroop Effect. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grammar. 33. English is Greg' L1. His family moves to Colombia. He learns Spanish fluently there . What phenomenon is it? A) Successive bilingualism. B) Simultaneous bilingualism. C) Assimilation. D) Mixed speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Successive bilingualism. 34. In top-down processing, a person A) Learning small details. B) Utilize previous knowledge. C) Learn from unexpected information. D) Utilize knowledge on alphabets, words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Utilize previous knowledge. 35. Which part of the brain handles one's speech? A) Broca's area. B) Wernicke's area. C) Auditory association area. D) Primary motor cortex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Broca's area. 36. What is the supporting theory mentioned in the prsentation? A) Cognitive development theory. B) Social-affective theory. C) Krashen's input hypothesis. D) Universal Grammar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Krashen's input hypothesis. 37. When a person is able to learn a second language without experiencing interference with the first language, then this is referred to as: A) Sequential bilingual. B) Additive bilingual. C) Subtractive bilingual. D) Simultaneous bilingual. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Additive bilingual. 38. Psycholinguistics as a field of science that uses linguistic theory to analyze the mental processes that form the basis of human language behavior. A) Emmon Bach. B) Henry Guntur Tarigan. C) Tervoort. D) Clark and Clark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tervoort. 39. Innate linguistic knowledge consisting of a set of principles common to all languages is called.. A) Background knowledge. B) Critical period. C) Universal grammar. D) Grammatical judgement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Universal grammar. 40. What is the name of the scientific study of language-analysis of form, meaning, and context? A) Cognitive science. B) Neurolinguistics. C) Psychology. D) Linguistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Linguistics. 41. Non-fluent aphasia refers to: A) Difficulty to verbalize thoughts. B) Difficulty with thinking and reasoning. C) Difficulty understanding a speech. D) Difficulty using the muscles needed for speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Difficulty to verbalize thoughts. 42. Adding an affix is an interference in the ..... field A) Syntax. B) Phonology. C) Semantics. D) Morphology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Morphology. 43. How does the psycholinguistics approach influence the writing skill? A) It helps to specify writing levels and types. B) It reduce the intrinsic difficulties. C) It explains how personality affects students performance while learning a language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It helps to specify writing levels and types. 44. Disorders due to medical factors, one of which is speech mechanism disorders. What is a speech disorder caused by a lung disorder called? A) Laryngeal. B) Resonantal. C) Lingual. D) Pulmonal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pulmonal. 45. Stage of language acquisition in which the use of vowel and consonant sounds, as well as their combinations. A) Telegraphic Speech. B) One Word stage. C) Babbling. D) Cooing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Babbling. 46. Which hemisphere of the brain is thought to be related to language acquisition? A) Front hemisphere. B) Left hemisphere. C) Right hemisphere. D) Back hemisphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Left hemisphere. 47. When there is a breakdown in the Conceptual Preparation Stage, we call it a ..... A) Lexical Exchange. B) Sound perseveration. C) Semantic Substitution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semantic Substitution. 48. A pause is ..... A) A breakdown. B) Hesitation. C) Noise. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hesitation. 49. Language consists of various sound symbols to denote some objects, occurrence or meanings. A) Language is symbolic. B) Language is social. C) Language is arbitrary. D) Language is vocal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language is symbolic. 50. There are 4 stages (periods) of the history of the development of language learning. The phonetic method was developed in the ..... period A) 1880-1920. B) 1950-1960. C) 1940-1970. D) 1920-1940. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1880-1920. 51. Bambang studied English because he wanted to get a promotion in his office. This shows a functioning motivation ..... A) Instrumental. B) Integrative. C) Intrinsic. D) Material. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Instrumental. 52. What is the name of Jacob Robert's student who wrote an article entitled "Language and Psycholinguistics; a review" ? A) Nicholas Henry. B) Ferdinand de Saussure. C) Chomsky. D) Abdul Chaer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nicholas Henry. 53. Which of the following is a method of the psycholinguistics approach? A) Lexical storage Psycholinguistics. B) Cognitive psycholinguistics. C) Theoretical psycholinguistics. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theoretical psycholinguistics. 54. Age is one of the determinants of language learning. Adults are faster in terms of acquiring ..... A) Phonology and pronunciation systems. B) Phonology and semantics. C) Morphology and syntax. D) Vocabulary and phonology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morphology and syntax. 55. The scientific study of internal mental processes such as how people think, perceive, and communicate A) Cognitive science. B) Clinical psychology. C) Psycholinguistics. D) Cognitive psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cognitive psychology. 56. Piaget has been criticised for underestimating what factor in language development? A) Biology. B) Intelligence. C) Social interaction. D) Biology and intelligence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social interaction. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesPsycholinguistics Quiz 1 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books