Cognitive Science Exam 2 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
The environment plays no role in the acquisition of language: True or False - CORRECT
ANSWER - False
Children start out with purely imitative copying, proceed to an understanding of a rule, and
ultimately progress to the learning of the exceptions to that rule: True or False - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
Having the ability to refer to an object using language, even when the object is not present, is
known as: - CORRECT ANSWER - displacement
Researchers believe that children not exposed to language during the critical period - CORRECT
ANSWER - will suffer severe language impairments
Damage to the posterior region of the left hemisphere results in Broca's aphasia, which is
characterized by fluent and seemingly automatic speech that has little meaningful content: True
or False - CORRECT ANSWER - False
Which of the following linguistic systems were utilized to teach animals language skills?
- lexigrams
- plastic tokens
- American Sign Language
- all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - all of the above
Syntax refers to the rules of - CORRECT ANSWER - arranging words together in
sentences
, There is little evidence to support the notion of specific genes in humans for language: True or
False - CORRECT ANSWER - True
The field of linguistics generally considers language in its spoken form: True or False -
CORRECT ANSWER - True
The number of variations of the sentence, �The dog ran around the block� demonstrates which
property of language? - CORRECT ANSWER - generative
The two sentences, "The girl tied the ribbon" and "The ribbon was tied by the girl," have -
CORRECT ANSWER - different phrase structure and the same meaning
Studies demonstrate that when children learn the past tense in language, they - CORRECT
ANSWER - imitate the correct usage of the past tense for irregular verbs but make errors
with these verbs after learning the grammar rule associated with the past tense
According to Chomsky, a set of rules for modifying a sentence into a closely related one is
known as - CORRECT ANSWER - transformational grammar
In linguistics, domain-specific mechanism are those devoted to the processing purely linguistic
information: True or False - CORRECT ANSWER - True
Which of the following is true of universal grammar?
- it comprises the features that are instantiated in the grammars of all natural languages
- it holds that languages at a fundamental level are not different from one another
- it is considered as a collection of language rules hardwired into our brain from birth
- all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - all of the above
Damage to the arcuate fasciculus produces which of the following? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Broca's aphasia
ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
The environment plays no role in the acquisition of language: True or False - CORRECT
ANSWER - False
Children start out with purely imitative copying, proceed to an understanding of a rule, and
ultimately progress to the learning of the exceptions to that rule: True or False - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
Having the ability to refer to an object using language, even when the object is not present, is
known as: - CORRECT ANSWER - displacement
Researchers believe that children not exposed to language during the critical period - CORRECT
ANSWER - will suffer severe language impairments
Damage to the posterior region of the left hemisphere results in Broca's aphasia, which is
characterized by fluent and seemingly automatic speech that has little meaningful content: True
or False - CORRECT ANSWER - False
Which of the following linguistic systems were utilized to teach animals language skills?
- lexigrams
- plastic tokens
- American Sign Language
- all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - all of the above
Syntax refers to the rules of - CORRECT ANSWER - arranging words together in
sentences
, There is little evidence to support the notion of specific genes in humans for language: True or
False - CORRECT ANSWER - True
The field of linguistics generally considers language in its spoken form: True or False -
CORRECT ANSWER - True
The number of variations of the sentence, �The dog ran around the block� demonstrates which
property of language? - CORRECT ANSWER - generative
The two sentences, "The girl tied the ribbon" and "The ribbon was tied by the girl," have -
CORRECT ANSWER - different phrase structure and the same meaning
Studies demonstrate that when children learn the past tense in language, they - CORRECT
ANSWER - imitate the correct usage of the past tense for irregular verbs but make errors
with these verbs after learning the grammar rule associated with the past tense
According to Chomsky, a set of rules for modifying a sentence into a closely related one is
known as - CORRECT ANSWER - transformational grammar
In linguistics, domain-specific mechanism are those devoted to the processing purely linguistic
information: True or False - CORRECT ANSWER - True
Which of the following is true of universal grammar?
- it comprises the features that are instantiated in the grammars of all natural languages
- it holds that languages at a fundamental level are not different from one another
- it is considered as a collection of language rules hardwired into our brain from birth
- all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - all of the above
Damage to the arcuate fasciculus produces which of the following? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Broca's aphasia
