PSY 316 FINAL QUESTIONS & VERIFIED ANSWERS
Animals lack the ability to communicate using the language universal of __________. a.
Arbitrariness b. Semanticity c. Displacement d. Vocalization - Answers - C
__________ supported the idea that how we think is influenced by the specific language
that we speak. a. Whorf b. Hockett c. Miller d. Chompsky - Answers - A
3. Mental lexicon includes __________. a. words and their meaning b. phrase structure
c. syntactic rulebook d. propositional memory - Answers - A
4. The disruption (a loss of all or some) of previously intact language skills caused by a
brain-related disorder or injury is __________. a. Aphasia b. Agnosia c. Apraxia d.
Agraphia - Answers - A
The ability to monitor one's own understanding of what is being read is __________. a.
Metacomprehension b. Implicature c. Comprehension d. analysis by synthesis -
Answers - A
The process of comprehension in Gernsbacher's theory, of building a mental
representation of the meaning of sentences, is __________. a. the situation model b.
structure building c. Suppression d. the process model - Answers - B
During reading, the eye remains fixated on a word as long as the word is being actively
processed. This reflects __________. a. eye-mind assumption b. immediacy
assumption c. direct reference d. the "assist" function - Answers - A
In conversation, your beliefs about your conversational partners' knowledge and
interests reflect __________. a. primary theory b. direct theory c. derivative theory d.
second-order theory - Answers - B
In reasoning, the tendency to search for evidence that confirms a conclusion is called
__________. a. confirmation bias b. Insight c. counterfactual reasoning d. availability
heuristic - Answers - A
Decisions about size differences are sped up when the stimuli differ by a greater
amount. This reflects __________. a. JND b. distance effect c. discriminability index d.
spatial cueing - Answers - B
A heuristic is __________. a. a specific rule or solution procedure that is certain to yield
the correct answer if followed correctly b. an informal "rule of thumb" method for solving
problems c. the act of someone who reasons; to think logically; to analyze with reason
d. the mental representation of meaning in a reasoning problem - Answers - B
Animals lack the ability to communicate using the language universal of __________. a.
Arbitrariness b. Semanticity c. Displacement d. Vocalization - Answers - C
__________ supported the idea that how we think is influenced by the specific language
that we speak. a. Whorf b. Hockett c. Miller d. Chompsky - Answers - A
3. Mental lexicon includes __________. a. words and their meaning b. phrase structure
c. syntactic rulebook d. propositional memory - Answers - A
4. The disruption (a loss of all or some) of previously intact language skills caused by a
brain-related disorder or injury is __________. a. Aphasia b. Agnosia c. Apraxia d.
Agraphia - Answers - A
The ability to monitor one's own understanding of what is being read is __________. a.
Metacomprehension b. Implicature c. Comprehension d. analysis by synthesis -
Answers - A
The process of comprehension in Gernsbacher's theory, of building a mental
representation of the meaning of sentences, is __________. a. the situation model b.
structure building c. Suppression d. the process model - Answers - B
During reading, the eye remains fixated on a word as long as the word is being actively
processed. This reflects __________. a. eye-mind assumption b. immediacy
assumption c. direct reference d. the "assist" function - Answers - A
In conversation, your beliefs about your conversational partners' knowledge and
interests reflect __________. a. primary theory b. direct theory c. derivative theory d.
second-order theory - Answers - B
In reasoning, the tendency to search for evidence that confirms a conclusion is called
__________. a. confirmation bias b. Insight c. counterfactual reasoning d. availability
heuristic - Answers - A
Decisions about size differences are sped up when the stimuli differ by a greater
amount. This reflects __________. a. JND b. distance effect c. discriminability index d.
spatial cueing - Answers - B
A heuristic is __________. a. a specific rule or solution procedure that is certain to yield
the correct answer if followed correctly b. an informal "rule of thumb" method for solving
problems c. the act of someone who reasons; to think logically; to analyze with reason
d. the mental representation of meaning in a reasoning problem - Answers - B
