This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Psycholinguistics – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Psycholinguistics Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When was brain damage associated with language loss for the first time? A) 20th century. B) 18th century. C) Ancient times (3000 BC). D) 1500 AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ancient times (3000 BC). 2. The hypothesis which states that personality influences the language acquisition process is ..... A) Affective. B) Talent. C) Motivation. D) Affective filter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affective. 3. What is one factor that affects language learning? A) Aptitude. B) Attitude. C) Pronunciation. D) Habits. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aptitude. 4. The scientific study of language-analysis of form, meaning, and context A) Linguistics. B) Psychology. C) Neurolinguistics. D) Cognitive science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Linguistics. 5. 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. 6. The study of how different parts of the brain are involved in performing different functions related to language A) Neurolinguistics. B) Cognitive psychology. C) Psycholinguistics. D) Cognitive science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neurolinguistics. 7. What is the main cause of Conduction Aphasia? A) Damage on the left inferior frontal gyrus. B) Damage on the fibre tracts of the brain. C) Damage on the upper posterior temporal gyrus. D) Damage on Broca's area. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Damage on the fibre tracts of the brain. 8. According to which theorist do thought and language originate independently, but later merge? A) Piaget. B) Skinner. C) Vygostsky. D) Chomsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vygostsky. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. 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) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 12. The study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language A) Morphology. B) Morpheme. C) Pragmatics. D) Phonology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morphology. 13. 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) Pragmatics. C) Semantics. D) Morphology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pragmatics. 14. Which menumonic mechanism is this?You make sure that the memory remains as it is, and does not change or disappear. A) Obliteration. B) Reminiscence. C) Preservation. D) Recognition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preservation. 15. Which field of linguistics deals with the study of language and ethnic types including behaiour? A) Ethnolinguistics. B) Clinical linguistics. C) Biolinguistics. D) Developmental psycholinguistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethnolinguistics. 16. Unit of speech sound that is capable of distinguishing one word from another A) Phoneme. B) Phonology. C) Morpheme. D) Lexicon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phoneme. 17. Theory which states language is constructed in a sociocultural context, depending on cognitive/ environmental factors. A) Behaviourist. B) Innatist. C) Cognitive. D) Contextual. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contextual. 18. Which one is NOT an aspect of language learning of the Innatist? A) Universal Grammar. B) Critical Period. C) Grammatical judgement. D) Habit formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Habit formation. 19. Which field of linguistics is particularly interested in the brain's control over the process of speech and understanding? A) Neurolinguistics. B) Cognitive psychology. C) Psycholinguistics. D) Cognitive science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neurolinguistics. 20. 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) Parkinson. D) Multifactorial. 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