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Q: field that studies the structures and use of language
Ans: linguistics
Q: field of psychology that studies mental processes and
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Ans: cognitive psychology
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Q: field that studies the manner in which the human mind
processes language
Ans: pscyholinguistics
Q: interdisciplinary field that studies minds and mental processes
Ans: modern cognitive science
Q: semantics
Ans: the study of the meaning of words
Q: syntax
Ans: the study of word order
Q: phonology
Ans: the study of the sounds of language
Q: pragmatics
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Ans: the study of language use
Q: analytic introspection: who developed it as a technique and
what was it? how did behaviorists like Watson react to it
Ans: Wilhelm Wundt developed analytic introspection - participants
describe their mental process while doing a task.
Watson believed it was not valid because it could not be observed
making it impossible to disprove.
Q: how did one person both begin and then nearly end forever
the scientific practice of a cognitive psycholinguistics?
Ans: Wundt - valid study is observing behavior
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Q: how do empiricism and nativism relate to the nature/nurture
debate in cognitive psychology
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>what side of the debate do Watson, Skinner, and Chomsky fall
on
Ans: >empiricists (Nurture) - Watson, Skinner - knowledge comes from
experience
>nativists (Nature) - Chomsky - equipped with innate knowledge
Q: key developments that led to the decline of behaviorism
Ans: Skinner wrote verbal behavior and Chomsky wrote a critique for it,
behaviors lost a lot of power in psy department - skinner thought
language came from behavior imitation only, and chomsky pointed
out mental and cognitive ability of language
Q: describe the poverty of the stimulus argument
Ans: Chomsky argued the poverty of stimulus argument: Stimulus
carried enough for us to learn language ( weren't able to learn enough
from imitation ) they must have some innate mental mechanism that
allows us to learn language that quickly.
Q: data-collection procedure, identify that technique with
linguistics, psychology, rationalism, and or empiricism
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PSY357 - Exam 1 Questions and Answers
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Q: field that studies the structures and use of language
Ans: linguistics
Q: field of psychology that studies mental processes and
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respresentations
Ans: cognitive psychology
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Q: field that studies the manner in which the human mind
processes language
Ans: pscyholinguistics
Q: interdisciplinary field that studies minds and mental processes
Ans: modern cognitive science
Q: semantics
Ans: the study of the meaning of words
Q: syntax
Ans: the study of word order
Q: phonology
Ans: the study of the sounds of language
Q: pragmatics
, 2
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Ans: the study of language use
Q: analytic introspection: who developed it as a technique and
what was it? how did behaviorists like Watson react to it
Ans: Wilhelm Wundt developed analytic introspection - participants
describe their mental process while doing a task.
Watson believed it was not valid because it could not be observed
making it impossible to disprove.
Q: how did one person both begin and then nearly end forever
the scientific practice of a cognitive psycholinguistics?
Ans: Wundt - valid study is observing behavior
© 2025 Assignment Expert
Q: how do empiricism and nativism relate to the nature/nurture
debate in cognitive psychology
Guru01 - Stuvia
>what side of the debate do Watson, Skinner, and Chomsky fall
on
Ans: >empiricists (Nurture) - Watson, Skinner - knowledge comes from
experience
>nativists (Nature) - Chomsky - equipped with innate knowledge
Q: key developments that led to the decline of behaviorism
Ans: Skinner wrote verbal behavior and Chomsky wrote a critique for it,
behaviors lost a lot of power in psy department - skinner thought
language came from behavior imitation only, and chomsky pointed
out mental and cognitive ability of language
Q: describe the poverty of the stimulus argument
Ans: Chomsky argued the poverty of stimulus argument: Stimulus
carried enough for us to learn language ( weren't able to learn enough
from imitation ) they must have some innate mental mechanism that
allows us to learn language that quickly.
Q: data-collection procedure, identify that technique with
linguistics, psychology, rationalism, and or empiricism
