Cognitive Science Exam 2 Questions
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The environment plays no role in the acquisition of language: True or False - ✔✔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 -
✔✔True
Having the ability to refer to an object using language, even when the object is not
present, is known as: - ✔✔displacement
Researchers believe that children not exposed to language during the critical period -
✔✔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 - ✔✔False
Which of the following linguistic systems were utilized to teach animals language
skills?
- lexigrams
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,- plastic tokens
- American Sign Language
- all of the above - ✔✔all of the above
Syntax refers to the rules of - ✔✔arranging words together in sentences
There is little evidence to support the notion of specific genes in humans for language:
True or False - ✔✔True
The field of linguistics generally considers language in its spoken form: True or False -
✔✔True
The number of variations of the sentence, �The dog ran around the block�
demonstrates which property of language? - ✔✔generative
The two sentences, "The girl tied the ribbon" and "The ribbon was tied by the girl," have
- ✔✔different phrase structure and the same meaning
Studies demonstrate that when children learn the past tense in language, they -
✔✔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 - ✔✔transformational grammar
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, In linguistics, domain-specific mechanism are those devoted to the processing purely
linguistic information: True or False - ✔✔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 - ✔✔all of the above
Damage to the arcuate fasciculus produces which of the following? - ✔✔Broca's aphasia
In language, any sound, word, or picture can be chosen to represent a particular thing.
This exemplifies which property of language? - ✔✔arbitrary
According to the weak version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis, - ✔✔the language
a person speaks influences the way he or she thinks
Language can only be represented in the auditory domain: True or False - ✔✔False
Programs that perform the equivalent of applying a phrase-structure grammar to a
sentence, breaking it down into hierarchical constituents, are known as - ✔✔syntactical
analysis programs
The period during which humans were shaped by evolutionary forces was known as -
✔✔Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation
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The environment plays no role in the acquisition of language: True or False - ✔✔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 -
✔✔True
Having the ability to refer to an object using language, even when the object is not
present, is known as: - ✔✔displacement
Researchers believe that children not exposed to language during the critical period -
✔✔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 - ✔✔False
Which of the following linguistic systems were utilized to teach animals language
skills?
- lexigrams
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,- plastic tokens
- American Sign Language
- all of the above - ✔✔all of the above
Syntax refers to the rules of - ✔✔arranging words together in sentences
There is little evidence to support the notion of specific genes in humans for language:
True or False - ✔✔True
The field of linguistics generally considers language in its spoken form: True or False -
✔✔True
The number of variations of the sentence, �The dog ran around the block�
demonstrates which property of language? - ✔✔generative
The two sentences, "The girl tied the ribbon" and "The ribbon was tied by the girl," have
- ✔✔different phrase structure and the same meaning
Studies demonstrate that when children learn the past tense in language, they -
✔✔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 - ✔✔transformational grammar
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, In linguistics, domain-specific mechanism are those devoted to the processing purely
linguistic information: True or False - ✔✔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 - ✔✔all of the above
Damage to the arcuate fasciculus produces which of the following? - ✔✔Broca's aphasia
In language, any sound, word, or picture can be chosen to represent a particular thing.
This exemplifies which property of language? - ✔✔arbitrary
According to the weak version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis, - ✔✔the language
a person speaks influences the way he or she thinks
Language can only be represented in the auditory domain: True or False - ✔✔False
Programs that perform the equivalent of applying a phrase-structure grammar to a
sentence, breaking it down into hierarchical constituents, are known as - ✔✔syntactical
analysis programs
The period during which humans were shaped by evolutionary forces was known as -
✔✔Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation
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