Psy 357 final exam review questions with complete solutions
A 13-year-old child wanders into a German town from a nearby
forest, apparently having lived there for years without parents or
human companions. Stunned and bewildered, the townspeople
attempt to teach this child German, but the attempts fail. Which
of the following explanations for the failure are in line with the
Critical Period Hypothesis? Correct Answers the child is too
old to begin learning language
A 20-month-old and a 36-month-old are separately having a
"conversation" with their respective parents. According to
research on development of conversational skills by Bloom and
colleagues (1976), the 36-month old is more likely than the 20-
month old to: Correct Answers produce sentences that are
topically related to the parent's sentences
A pregnant mother is wondering what the baby she is carrying is
learning about language. Which of the following answers would
you feel most comfortable giving her? Correct Answers
prosody (voice rising and falling, the flow)
A researcher is attempting to replicate the research done by
Allington and Strange (1977) on individual differences in
reading strategies. She identifies a number of child participants
in the research who all fall into a similar pattern: When they
read the sentence aloud "The frog hopped oven the snow", these
participants all pronounced "oven" as written, and did NOT
"fix" the word to fit with the context of the sentence. If the
original results do replicate, which of the following is likely to
, be true of these particular children? Correct Answers they have
shown high scores on a separate test of reading comprehension
A researcher wants to know whether a fetuses can recognize the
sound of their own mothers's voices compared to strangers'
voices. Which of the following is a dependent variable that the
researcher is likely to select in order to measure voice
recognition in fetuses (who are still in the womb)? Correct
Answers heart rate
According Chomky's theory of Universal Grammar,
"parameters" play a central role in the argument. According to
this theory, what benefit do parameters provide to people
learning language? Correct Answers they allow a large amount
of grammatical knowledge to be gained with relatively little
exposure to a language's grammar
An elementary school teacher is being interviewed for a position
at a local public school. When the interviewers ask him to
describe his philosophy for teaching children how to read, he
says that the most important factor in teaching children to read is
to expose them to as many good books as possible, and reading
will come naturally. Which of the following approaches does
this most resemble? Correct Answers whole-language
At the park, a father sees a tree and tells his son, "Look at that
tree! See that tree?" The father is helping the child solve the
mapping problem by ____________. Correct Answers using
child directed speech
A 13-year-old child wanders into a German town from a nearby
forest, apparently having lived there for years without parents or
human companions. Stunned and bewildered, the townspeople
attempt to teach this child German, but the attempts fail. Which
of the following explanations for the failure are in line with the
Critical Period Hypothesis? Correct Answers the child is too
old to begin learning language
A 20-month-old and a 36-month-old are separately having a
"conversation" with their respective parents. According to
research on development of conversational skills by Bloom and
colleagues (1976), the 36-month old is more likely than the 20-
month old to: Correct Answers produce sentences that are
topically related to the parent's sentences
A pregnant mother is wondering what the baby she is carrying is
learning about language. Which of the following answers would
you feel most comfortable giving her? Correct Answers
prosody (voice rising and falling, the flow)
A researcher is attempting to replicate the research done by
Allington and Strange (1977) on individual differences in
reading strategies. She identifies a number of child participants
in the research who all fall into a similar pattern: When they
read the sentence aloud "The frog hopped oven the snow", these
participants all pronounced "oven" as written, and did NOT
"fix" the word to fit with the context of the sentence. If the
original results do replicate, which of the following is likely to
, be true of these particular children? Correct Answers they have
shown high scores on a separate test of reading comprehension
A researcher wants to know whether a fetuses can recognize the
sound of their own mothers's voices compared to strangers'
voices. Which of the following is a dependent variable that the
researcher is likely to select in order to measure voice
recognition in fetuses (who are still in the womb)? Correct
Answers heart rate
According Chomky's theory of Universal Grammar,
"parameters" play a central role in the argument. According to
this theory, what benefit do parameters provide to people
learning language? Correct Answers they allow a large amount
of grammatical knowledge to be gained with relatively little
exposure to a language's grammar
An elementary school teacher is being interviewed for a position
at a local public school. When the interviewers ask him to
describe his philosophy for teaching children how to read, he
says that the most important factor in teaching children to read is
to expose them to as many good books as possible, and reading
will come naturally. Which of the following approaches does
this most resemble? Correct Answers whole-language
At the park, a father sees a tree and tells his son, "Look at that
tree! See that tree?" The father is helping the child solve the
mapping problem by ____________. Correct Answers using
child directed speech
