PSYCH 375 EXAMINATION TEST 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
GUARANTEED PASS
⩥ psycholinguistics. Answer: the interdisciplinary study of how people
USE language
- heavily english-centric
⩥ how is english different from other languages?. Answer: - simple
grammar
- irregularly spelled words
⩥ phonetics. Answer: how we make sounds
⩥ phonemes. Answer: mental sound categories
- dog has 3 phonemes: /d/ /o/ /g/
- about 40 phonemes in english language
⩥ morphemes. Answer: smallest units of meaning
- bird, -ing, -s, -ed, shoe
,⩥ words. Answer: one or more morphemes
⩥ syntax. Answer: structure of sequence of words
⩥ semantics. Answer: rules of meaning governing language (grammar)
- "colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
⩥ prosody. Answer: emphasis
- patterns of intonation which change the interpretation of sentences
- "I'm not angry" vs "I'm not angry!"
⩥ pragmatics. Answer: social rules that underlie language use
- i.e. indirect requests, politely phrased statements, or sarcasm take more
working memory and attention to properly understand
-With sarcasm, we rely heavily on social cues to understand that an
utterance was sarcastic
- i.e. "can I use the bathroom?" teacher: "yes, you can... but..."
,⩥ chomsky's approach to language. Answer: - We process language
differently than other cognitive tasks
- sentences have a surface structure and a deep structure
⩥ Surface structure. Answer: PHYSICAL FORM
characteristics of language (i.e. a word)
⩥ Deep structure. Answer: ABSTRACT MEANING
meaning behind language
⩥ Ambiguity. Answer: one surface structure, two+ deep structures
- "kids make nutritious snacks"
⩥ what makes language comprehension difficult?. Answer: negatives,
passive voice, syntactic complexity, ambiguity
⩥ Negatives. Answer: "not," "never"; harder than affirmative sentences
because you must invert the meaning
⩥ Passive voice. Answer: we don't expect the subject to come before the
verb (i.e. the mouse was chased by the cat vs the cat chased the mouse)
, ⩥ Syntactic complexity. Answer: embedded clauses tax our working
memory (i.e. "the woman approached the window, which looked out on
the rolling green hills of the English countryside, and lobbed a brush at
the gardner")
⩥ Ambiguity. Answer: when a surface structure has two or more deep
structures (i.e. "there are old men and women in the park"); who is old?
⩥ Good-enough approach. Answer: instead of fully and completely
processing the sentence, we are just doing a good enough job
- we use heuristics to understand language
⩥ Dual-route cascade model of reading. Answer: 2 ways you
recognize/understand a word
1) Direct access = image to meaning
I know these visual symbols mean this thing i.e. if you see this
shape/pattern, it means dog, car, farm, etc.
2) Indirect access = image to sound to meaning
QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
GUARANTEED PASS
⩥ psycholinguistics. Answer: the interdisciplinary study of how people
USE language
- heavily english-centric
⩥ how is english different from other languages?. Answer: - simple
grammar
- irregularly spelled words
⩥ phonetics. Answer: how we make sounds
⩥ phonemes. Answer: mental sound categories
- dog has 3 phonemes: /d/ /o/ /g/
- about 40 phonemes in english language
⩥ morphemes. Answer: smallest units of meaning
- bird, -ing, -s, -ed, shoe
,⩥ words. Answer: one or more morphemes
⩥ syntax. Answer: structure of sequence of words
⩥ semantics. Answer: rules of meaning governing language (grammar)
- "colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
⩥ prosody. Answer: emphasis
- patterns of intonation which change the interpretation of sentences
- "I'm not angry" vs "I'm not angry!"
⩥ pragmatics. Answer: social rules that underlie language use
- i.e. indirect requests, politely phrased statements, or sarcasm take more
working memory and attention to properly understand
-With sarcasm, we rely heavily on social cues to understand that an
utterance was sarcastic
- i.e. "can I use the bathroom?" teacher: "yes, you can... but..."
,⩥ chomsky's approach to language. Answer: - We process language
differently than other cognitive tasks
- sentences have a surface structure and a deep structure
⩥ Surface structure. Answer: PHYSICAL FORM
characteristics of language (i.e. a word)
⩥ Deep structure. Answer: ABSTRACT MEANING
meaning behind language
⩥ Ambiguity. Answer: one surface structure, two+ deep structures
- "kids make nutritious snacks"
⩥ what makes language comprehension difficult?. Answer: negatives,
passive voice, syntactic complexity, ambiguity
⩥ Negatives. Answer: "not," "never"; harder than affirmative sentences
because you must invert the meaning
⩥ Passive voice. Answer: we don't expect the subject to come before the
verb (i.e. the mouse was chased by the cat vs the cat chased the mouse)
, ⩥ Syntactic complexity. Answer: embedded clauses tax our working
memory (i.e. "the woman approached the window, which looked out on
the rolling green hills of the English countryside, and lobbed a brush at
the gardner")
⩥ Ambiguity. Answer: when a surface structure has two or more deep
structures (i.e. "there are old men and women in the park"); who is old?
⩥ Good-enough approach. Answer: instead of fully and completely
processing the sentence, we are just doing a good enough job
- we use heuristics to understand language
⩥ Dual-route cascade model of reading. Answer: 2 ways you
recognize/understand a word
1) Direct access = image to meaning
I know these visual symbols mean this thing i.e. if you see this
shape/pattern, it means dog, car, farm, etc.
2) Indirect access = image to sound to meaning
