PSY 357 Exam Prep Questions with Complete
Solutions
True or False: All speakers pronounce the vowel in "hat" differently than the vowel in
"bet"
False
True or False: B, D, V, and the TH in "thanks" are voiced consonants
True
The TH in "moth" is a voiced consonant
False, it's voiceless
Voicing refers to...
the vibration of the vocal folds
Place of articulation refers to...
the location at which two speech organs come together to form a sound
Manner of articulation refers to...
the configuration and interaction of the articulators when making a speech sound
Bilabial, dental, and glottal refer to...
the location at which two speech organs come together to form a sound
Stops/plosives, nasals, and liquids refer to...
the configuration and interaction of the articulators when making a speech sound
,Voice Onset Time (VOT) refers to...
the time between the release of air and the vocal chord vibration.
Vowel sounds are described by the following qualities, EXCEPT:
A) Manner of articulation
B) Position of tongue
C) Location of production
D) Rounding of lips
A) Manner of articulation
In English, which vowels have the feature of rounded lips?
A) Front vowels
B) High vowels
C) Center vowels
D) Back vowels
E) It depends upon the speaker
D) Back vowels
A brand-new nut butter is developed. The marketing team comes up with four options to
name the product. When marketing the product in the USA, which of the new product
names is likely to be a more successful marketing approach for native speakers of English?
A) Naddle-Niddle
B) Natter-Nitter
C) Num-No
D) Nitter-Natter
, D) Nitter-Natter
What information do infants knows about their mother's language at birth?
Prosody of mother's language
What does it mean that infants are universal phoneticians?
They can distinguish sounds from all languages
Both American and Japanese adults were tested on their ability to hear these different
sounds. The results revealed that...
Japanese listeners do not hear and change in /ra/ and /la/
Janet worker used a habituation-dishabituation procedure to determine critical periods for
infants' perception of nonnative speech sounds. Werker found that if an infant raised in an
English-speaking household is still capable of discriminating between sounds spoken in
Hindi, when a new Hindi speech sound is played, the infant will...
A) Smile as soon as the novel speech sound is played.
B) Turn her head before the presentation of the novel speech sound.
C) Turn her head before the appearance of a toy, immediately after presentation of the
novel speech sound.
D) Express surprise when a toy appears suddenly.
C) Turn her head before the appearance of a toy, immediately after presentation of the novel
speech sound.
Categorical perception refers to an individual's ability to...
perceive unambiguously a stimulus as a member of a group
Solutions
True or False: All speakers pronounce the vowel in "hat" differently than the vowel in
"bet"
False
True or False: B, D, V, and the TH in "thanks" are voiced consonants
True
The TH in "moth" is a voiced consonant
False, it's voiceless
Voicing refers to...
the vibration of the vocal folds
Place of articulation refers to...
the location at which two speech organs come together to form a sound
Manner of articulation refers to...
the configuration and interaction of the articulators when making a speech sound
Bilabial, dental, and glottal refer to...
the location at which two speech organs come together to form a sound
Stops/plosives, nasals, and liquids refer to...
the configuration and interaction of the articulators when making a speech sound
,Voice Onset Time (VOT) refers to...
the time between the release of air and the vocal chord vibration.
Vowel sounds are described by the following qualities, EXCEPT:
A) Manner of articulation
B) Position of tongue
C) Location of production
D) Rounding of lips
A) Manner of articulation
In English, which vowels have the feature of rounded lips?
A) Front vowels
B) High vowels
C) Center vowels
D) Back vowels
E) It depends upon the speaker
D) Back vowels
A brand-new nut butter is developed. The marketing team comes up with four options to
name the product. When marketing the product in the USA, which of the new product
names is likely to be a more successful marketing approach for native speakers of English?
A) Naddle-Niddle
B) Natter-Nitter
C) Num-No
D) Nitter-Natter
, D) Nitter-Natter
What information do infants knows about their mother's language at birth?
Prosody of mother's language
What does it mean that infants are universal phoneticians?
They can distinguish sounds from all languages
Both American and Japanese adults were tested on their ability to hear these different
sounds. The results revealed that...
Japanese listeners do not hear and change in /ra/ and /la/
Janet worker used a habituation-dishabituation procedure to determine critical periods for
infants' perception of nonnative speech sounds. Werker found that if an infant raised in an
English-speaking household is still capable of discriminating between sounds spoken in
Hindi, when a new Hindi speech sound is played, the infant will...
A) Smile as soon as the novel speech sound is played.
B) Turn her head before the presentation of the novel speech sound.
C) Turn her head before the appearance of a toy, immediately after presentation of the
novel speech sound.
D) Express surprise when a toy appears suddenly.
C) Turn her head before the appearance of a toy, immediately after presentation of the novel
speech sound.
Categorical perception refers to an individual's ability to...
perceive unambiguously a stimulus as a member of a group
