Psy357 Exam 3 Quiz with Answers
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? correct answers 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)? correct answers 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 ____________. correct answers using child
directed speech
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?
a. Such children can place a ball in a swing after hearing "Why don't you put the ball in the
swing".
b. 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."
c. Such children can correctly answer the question "Who's tickling Cookie Monster?" when
looking at a picture of Big Bird tickling Cookie Monster.
d. all of the above correct answers 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? correct
answers undergeneralization
Mehler and colleagues (1988) showed that infants can distinguish intonational contours in their
maternal language (such as French) and those in another language (such as Russian) by the time
they are 4 days old. The most likely explanation of this finding is that children are learning the
prosodic contours of _______________? correct answers their native language while still in the
womb
One of the possible problems with MLU (mean length of utterances) as a measure of children's
linguistic capabilities is that: correct answers it is likely a more conservative measure than
measures of comprehension abilities.
The phonemes /r/ and /l/ do not form minimal pairs in Japanese, but they do in English. Research
shows that for these two phonemes, it is ________ who have the most trouble distinguishing
between them.
Japanese infants
Japanese adults
English infants
English adults correct answers japanese adults
Which of the following factors may influence the order of acquisition of grammatical
morphemes?
a. the semantic complexity of the morphemes
b. the syntactic complexity of the morphemes
c. frequency of parental usage
d. All of the above options may influence the order of acquisition correct answers all of the
above
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? correct answers 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)? correct answers 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 ____________. correct answers using child
directed speech
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?
a. Such children can place a ball in a swing after hearing "Why don't you put the ball in the
swing".
b. 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."
c. Such children can correctly answer the question "Who's tickling Cookie Monster?" when
looking at a picture of Big Bird tickling Cookie Monster.
d. all of the above correct answers 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? correct
answers undergeneralization
Mehler and colleagues (1988) showed that infants can distinguish intonational contours in their
maternal language (such as French) and those in another language (such as Russian) by the time
they are 4 days old. The most likely explanation of this finding is that children are learning the
prosodic contours of _______________? correct answers their native language while still in the
womb
One of the possible problems with MLU (mean length of utterances) as a measure of children's
linguistic capabilities is that: correct answers it is likely a more conservative measure than
measures of comprehension abilities.
The phonemes /r/ and /l/ do not form minimal pairs in Japanese, but they do in English. Research
shows that for these two phonemes, it is ________ who have the most trouble distinguishing
between them.
Japanese infants
Japanese adults
English infants
English adults correct answers japanese adults
Which of the following factors may influence the order of acquisition of grammatical
morphemes?
a. the semantic complexity of the morphemes
b. the syntactic complexity of the morphemes
c. frequency of parental usage
d. All of the above options may influence the order of acquisition correct answers all of the
above
