GVSU PSY 357 Exam 3 Questions With Complete Solutions
Be able to identify an accurate description of why it may or may
not be important to study garden path sentences Correct
Answers It is important to study garden path sentences because
such sentences DO occur in real life, and our language facilities
must deal with them.
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements:
__Theories/hypotheses tested Correct Answers Syntax First &
Interactionist Approaches
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements: __Task/stimuli used
Correct Answers The sentence itself regarding editors
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements:
__Independent/dependent variables used in design Correct
Answers Two levels:
One editor context
Two editor context
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements: __Predictions made
by different theories Correct Answers Interactionist Approach:
If readers are given one editor, they get garden pathed, and
slowed down at "agreed"
Paragraph context (other information) can override minimal
attachment
, Syntax First/Garden Path Approach:
No effects of context on reading times.
Minimal attachment and syntax operate independently of
context
Paragraph context has no influence on initial syntactic
computations
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements: __Results of
experiment Correct Answers Results supported the modular,
Garden Path Model
No immediate effect of context found at disambiguating region
(agreed)
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements: __Implications for
Modularity Correct Answers Results do not show support for
the interactionism side of things. Rather that support the syntax-
first/garden path hypothesis and theory. Language must be
modular.
Understand with good depth how the following studies provide
evidence against the Garden Path Model:
__a) Which specific piece of evidence (i.e., specific finding
from a specific language or set of languages)
suggests that Late Closure is not universal? How? Correct
Answers Late closure is not a universal strategy. Spanish and
Dutch attach to relative clauses (gives information about the
person or thing mentioned) in the first noun phrase.
Be able to identify an accurate description of why it may or may
not be important to study garden path sentences Correct
Answers It is important to study garden path sentences because
such sentences DO occur in real life, and our language facilities
must deal with them.
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements:
__Theories/hypotheses tested Correct Answers Syntax First &
Interactionist Approaches
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements: __Task/stimuli used
Correct Answers The sentence itself regarding editors
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements:
__Independent/dependent variables used in design Correct
Answers Two levels:
One editor context
Two editor context
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements: __Predictions made
by different theories Correct Answers Interactionist Approach:
If readers are given one editor, they get garden pathed, and
slowed down at "agreed"
Paragraph context (other information) can override minimal
attachment
, Syntax First/Garden Path Approach:
No effects of context on reading times.
Minimal attachment and syntax operate independently of
context
Paragraph context has no influence on initial syntactic
computations
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements: __Results of
experiment Correct Answers Results supported the modular,
Garden Path Model
No immediate effect of context found at disambiguating region
(agreed)
Regarding the Ferreira & Clifton (1986) experiment: Be able to
identify or describe the following elements: __Implications for
Modularity Correct Answers Results do not show support for
the interactionism side of things. Rather that support the syntax-
first/garden path hypothesis and theory. Language must be
modular.
Understand with good depth how the following studies provide
evidence against the Garden Path Model:
__a) Which specific piece of evidence (i.e., specific finding
from a specific language or set of languages)
suggests that Late Closure is not universal? How? Correct
Answers Late closure is not a universal strategy. Spanish and
Dutch attach to relative clauses (gives information about the
person or thing mentioned) in the first noun phrase.
