PSYC 224 Exam 3 Questions and Answers Already Passed
Aphasia - Answers A language disorder caused by brain damage, resulting in impairments in
speaking, understanding, reading, or writing.
Arbitrariness - Answers The principle that there is no inherent connection between the sounds
or words of a language and the meanings they represent.
Broca's Aphasia - Answers A type of aphasia characterized by difficulty in producing fluent and
grammatically correct speech.
Center-embedded Sentence - Answers A sentence in which one clause is embedded within
another clause.
Constituent - Answers A basic unit in a sentence's surface structure, representing a meaningful
grouping of words.
Deep Structure - Answers The underlying meaning of a sentence.
Displacement - Answers The ability of language to communicate about things that are not
present in time or space.
Garden-path Sentence - Answers A sentence with a transient ambiguity that leads the reader to
initially make an incorrect interpretation.
Generativity - Answers The ability to use a limited number of words and grammatical rules to
produce an infinite variety of novel expressions.
Immediacy of Interpretation - Answers The principle that people attempt to extract meaning
from each word as it arrives, rather than waiting for the end of a sentence or phrase.
Inference - Answers A conclusion or interpretation that is drawn from available evidence or
information.
Linguistic Universals - Answers Features or properties that are common to all human languages.
Morphology - Answers The study of the internal structure of words and how they are formed.
N400 - Answers An event-related potential (ERP) signal that indicates difficulty in semantic
processing.
Parsing - Answers The process of analyzing a sentence to determine its grammatical structure
and meaning.
Permanent Ambiguity - Answers Ambiguity in a sentence that cannot be resolved, even after
considering the entire sentence.
Phonology - Answers The study of the sound system of a language.
Aphasia - Answers A language disorder caused by brain damage, resulting in impairments in
speaking, understanding, reading, or writing.
Arbitrariness - Answers The principle that there is no inherent connection between the sounds
or words of a language and the meanings they represent.
Broca's Aphasia - Answers A type of aphasia characterized by difficulty in producing fluent and
grammatically correct speech.
Center-embedded Sentence - Answers A sentence in which one clause is embedded within
another clause.
Constituent - Answers A basic unit in a sentence's surface structure, representing a meaningful
grouping of words.
Deep Structure - Answers The underlying meaning of a sentence.
Displacement - Answers The ability of language to communicate about things that are not
present in time or space.
Garden-path Sentence - Answers A sentence with a transient ambiguity that leads the reader to
initially make an incorrect interpretation.
Generativity - Answers The ability to use a limited number of words and grammatical rules to
produce an infinite variety of novel expressions.
Immediacy of Interpretation - Answers The principle that people attempt to extract meaning
from each word as it arrives, rather than waiting for the end of a sentence or phrase.
Inference - Answers A conclusion or interpretation that is drawn from available evidence or
information.
Linguistic Universals - Answers Features or properties that are common to all human languages.
Morphology - Answers The study of the internal structure of words and how they are formed.
N400 - Answers An event-related potential (ERP) signal that indicates difficulty in semantic
processing.
Parsing - Answers The process of analyzing a sentence to determine its grammatical structure
and meaning.
Permanent Ambiguity - Answers Ambiguity in a sentence that cannot be resolved, even after
considering the entire sentence.
Phonology - Answers The study of the sound system of a language.
