COGNITIVE PROCESSING QUIZ 3 – Flashcards
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Place of articulation
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To produce some sounds, the flow of air out of the lungs is interrupted by the lips; for other sounds, the flow is disrupted by the placement of the tongue and teeth.
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In ordinary speech production, the boundaries between syllables or between words are usually
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Not marked, so they must be determined by the perceiver
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The perception of speech is made easier by all except
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There is impressively little variation from one speaker to the next
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Categorical perception
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Better at hearing the difference between sounds from different categories than we are at distinguishing sounds from the same category.
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Sentences such as "colorless green ideas sleep furiously
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That a sentence can be grammatical even if it is meaningless
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The fact that languages across the world show the same pattern of regularities lead researchers to believe that
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We have an inmate biological hertitage stipulating the structure of human language
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What is Not a principle that guides sentence parsing
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Decisions about the parsing of individual words are not made until the entire sentence has been heard
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Broca's area
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Non- fluent aphasia in which a patient has good language comprehension but disrupted speech production, is typically associated with damage to
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Participant M
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Participant M speaks a language with a variety of color words, while participant Q speaks a language that only differentiates between light and dark. Who is more likely to have more specific color discrimination
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There is some evidence being bilingual has other cognitive advantages. Which of the following is NOT of these advantages
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Improved long-term memory for everyday events
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Heuristics are strategies that
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Sometimes risk error in order to gain efficiency
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The availability heuristic is a strategy in which
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People base their estimates of frequency on how easily the can think of examples of the relevant category
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In one experiment, participants were asked to list either 6 or 12 instances in their lives when they were assertive. Which of the following statements is FALSE about participants who were asked to list only 6 instances
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Overall, they rated themselves as less assertive
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In using the representativeness heuristics, participants
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seem to assume that all instances of the category resemble the prototype for that category
