This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Psycholinguistics – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Psycholinguistics Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. The systematic organization of sounds in languages A) Phonology. B) Phoneme. C) Morphology. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phonology. 6. An example of a Verbal filler is ..... A) Uuhmm. B) Eehhh. C) Well. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Well. 7. The recognition that children who pretend they are reading or writing understand a lot about literacy belongs to which approach A) Emergent literacy. B) Reading readiness. C) Phonetic. D) Phonemic awareness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emergent literacy. 8. 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. 9. Smallest unit of language that carries meaning A) Morpheme. B) Morphology. C) Phoneme. D) Phonology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morpheme. 10. Mental symptoms that can determine the relationship between something we know or an activity that involves our brain working. A) Speak. B) Think. C) Cultured. D) Social. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Think. 11. Mental block can cause a person to be less successful in acquiring a second language. Mental blocks are also called ..... A) Affective attitude. B) Affective Filters. C) Innate nature. D) Defensive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Affective Filters. 12. It is the study of word structures, especially the relationships between related words. A) Morphology. B) Phonology. C) Pragmatics. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morphology. 13. A set of semantic, syntactic, morphological, and phonological categories and rules that underlie humans' ability to speak and understand A) Grammar. B) Lexicon. C) Stroop Effect. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grammar. 14. English is Greg' L1. His family moves to Colombia. He learns Spanish fluently there . What phenomenon is it? A) Assimilation. B) Simultaneous bilingualism. C) Mixed speech. D) Successive bilingualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Successive bilingualism. 15. 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. 16. Which part of the brain handles one's speech? A) Wernicke's area. B) Broca's area. C) Auditory association area. D) Primary motor cortex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Broca's area. 17. What is the supporting theory mentioned in the prsentation? A) Social-affective theory. B) Universal Grammar. C) Krashen's input hypothesis. D) Cognitive development theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Krashen's input hypothesis. 18. When a person is able to learn a second language without experiencing interference with the first language, then this is referred to as: A) Simultaneous bilingual. B) Sequential bilingual. C) Additive bilingual. D) Subtractive bilingual. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Additive bilingual. 19. 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. 20. Innate linguistic knowledge consisting of a set of principles common to all languages is called.. A) Background knowledge. B) Grammatical judgement. C) Universal grammar. D) Critical period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Universal grammar. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesPsycholinguistics Quiz 1Psycholinguistics Quiz 2Psycholinguistics Quiz 3Psycholinguistics Quiz 4Psycholinguistics Quiz 6 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books