PSY 357 Exam Questions With Complete Solutions
__What sequence of events led to so many reputable sources
being wrong about the number of Eskimo words for snow? What
role did Whorf himself play in this sequence? What have been
the consequences of this sequence of events, in terms of
common cultural (mis)understandings about the facts of this
phenomenon? Correct Answers Whorf's article was spread
quickly through lots of sources and then continued to create a
second, third and fourth recollection of the words
The false information that spread about the eskimos created a
domino effect regarding the understanding of the eskimo culture
We are lead to believe whatever is given to us regarding an
unfamiliar group since we have no prior knowledge of it
_Also be able to identify a statement about how speed-reading
apps like Spreeder alter ordinary eye movement processes
Correct Answers Spreeder keeps the fixation point the same and
shows each letter individually at the same fixation point
_Be able to identify the principles of speech perception or name
of the theory supported by the McGurk Effect. Correct Answers
McGurk Effect- When visual info and auditory info are in
conflict, perceivers use both sources of information to arrive at a
stable representation
Motor Theory of Speech Perception- perceptual system is
aligned with the production system- that we perceive speech
according to how we could imagine ourselves producing it
_Given a place where a consonant is articulated in the mouth
(e.g., lips, roof of mouth, teeth, etc.) be able to identify the
, phonetic term for that consonant's place of articulation. Correct
Answers Bilabial: near the lips
Labiodental: lips and teeth
Dental: teeth
Alveolar: teeth, tongue tip
Palatal: soft/hard palate
Velar: back part of roof of mouth
Glottal: glottis
_the adaptation that the perceptual system seems to have made
to accommodate this problem Correct Answers categorical
perception?
alphabet Correct Answers letters represent phonemes
Based on research conducted by Johnson, Perea and Rayner
(2007), be able to identify word-scrambling methods that would,
and would not, lead to easily identifiable word strings. Correct
Answers Top-down processing: can mentally unscramble letters
First and last letters have to be in correct spot but the middle
letters are scrambled because we don't ready every letter by
itself but the word as a whole
Be able to identify a description of a speech signal (a record of
the physical energy) produced by conversational speech in terms
of breaks between different elements of the sentence. (Can you
see breaks between words?) Correct Answers Speech
segmentation- "mice eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs
eat ivy"- hard to tell where the words are separated when
looking at the recording of the vocalization (how we pick words
__What sequence of events led to so many reputable sources
being wrong about the number of Eskimo words for snow? What
role did Whorf himself play in this sequence? What have been
the consequences of this sequence of events, in terms of
common cultural (mis)understandings about the facts of this
phenomenon? Correct Answers Whorf's article was spread
quickly through lots of sources and then continued to create a
second, third and fourth recollection of the words
The false information that spread about the eskimos created a
domino effect regarding the understanding of the eskimo culture
We are lead to believe whatever is given to us regarding an
unfamiliar group since we have no prior knowledge of it
_Also be able to identify a statement about how speed-reading
apps like Spreeder alter ordinary eye movement processes
Correct Answers Spreeder keeps the fixation point the same and
shows each letter individually at the same fixation point
_Be able to identify the principles of speech perception or name
of the theory supported by the McGurk Effect. Correct Answers
McGurk Effect- When visual info and auditory info are in
conflict, perceivers use both sources of information to arrive at a
stable representation
Motor Theory of Speech Perception- perceptual system is
aligned with the production system- that we perceive speech
according to how we could imagine ourselves producing it
_Given a place where a consonant is articulated in the mouth
(e.g., lips, roof of mouth, teeth, etc.) be able to identify the
, phonetic term for that consonant's place of articulation. Correct
Answers Bilabial: near the lips
Labiodental: lips and teeth
Dental: teeth
Alveolar: teeth, tongue tip
Palatal: soft/hard palate
Velar: back part of roof of mouth
Glottal: glottis
_the adaptation that the perceptual system seems to have made
to accommodate this problem Correct Answers categorical
perception?
alphabet Correct Answers letters represent phonemes
Based on research conducted by Johnson, Perea and Rayner
(2007), be able to identify word-scrambling methods that would,
and would not, lead to easily identifiable word strings. Correct
Answers Top-down processing: can mentally unscramble letters
First and last letters have to be in correct spot but the middle
letters are scrambled because we don't ready every letter by
itself but the word as a whole
Be able to identify a description of a speech signal (a record of
the physical energy) produced by conversational speech in terms
of breaks between different elements of the sentence. (Can you
see breaks between words?) Correct Answers Speech
segmentation- "mice eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs
eat ivy"- hard to tell where the words are separated when
looking at the recording of the vocalization (how we pick words
