PSY 357 Test 3 Questions with Complete Solutions
A pregnant mother is wondering what the baby she is carrying is learning about
language. Which of the following answers would you feel most comfortable giving
her?
-syntax
-semantics
-phonology
-[prosody]
A researcher wants to know whether a fetuses can recognize the sound of their own
mothers's voices compared to strangers' voices. Which of the following is a
dependent variable that the researcher is likely to select in order to measure voice
recognition in fetuses (who are still in the womb)?
-percent correct button presses
-reaction time
-eye movements to different faces
-[heart rate]
At the park, a father sees a tree and tells his son, "Look at that tree! See that tree?"
The father is helping the child solve the mapping problem by ____________.
, -preventing undergeneralizations
-using overregularization
-[using child directed speech]
-ignoring him
How does the evidence collected by Golinkoff and colleagues (1987) regarding the
comprehension abilities of children suggest that children who produce only one-
word utterances are capable of fully comprehending far more complex ones?
Such children look longer at a screen depicting Big Bird tickling Cookie Monster than a
screen depicting the opposite arrangement if they hear the sentence "Big Bird is tickling
Cookie Monster."
Jordan's parents like to warn him before he takes bites of his food that it is hot.
"Hot!" they say as he takes several bites. Later, when they are outside, Jordan's dad
says "Jordan, it's hot today!" Jordan looks confused, says "Hot!" and points to his
mouth, which is what he often does when he wants food. Which of the following
kinds of word-based errors is Jordan making?
undergeneralization
Mehler and colleagues (1988) showed that infants can distinguish intonational
contours in their maternal language (such as French) and those in another language
A pregnant mother is wondering what the baby she is carrying is learning about
language. Which of the following answers would you feel most comfortable giving
her?
-syntax
-semantics
-phonology
-[prosody]
A researcher wants to know whether a fetuses can recognize the sound of their own
mothers's voices compared to strangers' voices. Which of the following is a
dependent variable that the researcher is likely to select in order to measure voice
recognition in fetuses (who are still in the womb)?
-percent correct button presses
-reaction time
-eye movements to different faces
-[heart rate]
At the park, a father sees a tree and tells his son, "Look at that tree! See that tree?"
The father is helping the child solve the mapping problem by ____________.
, -preventing undergeneralizations
-using overregularization
-[using child directed speech]
-ignoring him
How does the evidence collected by Golinkoff and colleagues (1987) regarding the
comprehension abilities of children suggest that children who produce only one-
word utterances are capable of fully comprehending far more complex ones?
Such children look longer at a screen depicting Big Bird tickling Cookie Monster than a
screen depicting the opposite arrangement if they hear the sentence "Big Bird is tickling
Cookie Monster."
Jordan's parents like to warn him before he takes bites of his food that it is hot.
"Hot!" they say as he takes several bites. Later, when they are outside, Jordan's dad
says "Jordan, it's hot today!" Jordan looks confused, says "Hot!" and points to his
mouth, which is what he often does when he wants food. Which of the following
kinds of word-based errors is Jordan making?
undergeneralization
Mehler and colleagues (1988) showed that infants can distinguish intonational
contours in their maternal language (such as French) and those in another language
