Psycholinguistics Practice Exam questions
Lecture 1-6 (Week 1-4), Midterm (Exam 1), 2021-2022
Lecture 1
1→ What type of information about words is NOT stored in the lexicon?
a. spelling
b. meaning
c. all regular verbs
d. all irregular verbs
2→ how many words does an adult speaker know?
a. 5.000-10.000
b. 10.000-100.000
c. 15.000-50.000
d. 15.000-150.000
3→ What happens when one impairs broca’s area in the brain?
a. one has problems with language comprehension
b. one has problems with language learning
c. one has problems with language production
d. one has problems with written language
4→ Which word does not belong to the concept of ‘modularity’?
a. interactivity
b. discrete models
c. autonomous
d. boxology
e. flow diagrams
5→ Which word does not belong to the concept of ‘cascade models’?
a. overlap
b. feedback
c. independent
d. connectionism
e. reverse flow
f. interactivity
6→ what is the right order of placement?
a. hypothesis → theory → model → experiment
b. theory → model → hypothesis → experiment
c. hypothesis → model → theory → experiment
d. theory → hypothesis → model → experiment
, Lecture 2
7→ what is the right order of speech production (according to Levelt, 1989)
a. formulation → conceptualization → articulation
b. syntactic planning → phonological encoding → articulation
c. conceptualization → formulation → articulation
d. phonological encoding → syntactic planning → articulation
8→ which of these statements is correct:
1. during the conceptualization stage one chooses function words
2. during the formulation stage one has lexical access
a. only 1 is correct
b. only 2 is correct
c. both are correct
d. both are incorrect
9→ which of these statements is correct:
3. we barely make any speech errors
4. speech errors are also called ‘Freudian Slips’
a. only 3 is correct
b. only 4 is correct
c. both are correct
d. both are incorrect
10→ why do we study patterns of speech errors?
11→ ‘een bloemetje blengen’ is an example of:
a. substitution
b. perseveration
c. intruder
d. anticipation
12→ ‘Bake my bike’ (take my bike) is an example of:
a. anticipation
b. exchange
c. shift
d. permutation
13→ ‘fancy getting your model renosed’ (getting your nose remodelled) is an example of:
a. spoonerism
b. transposition
c. insertion
d. substitution
Lecture 1-6 (Week 1-4), Midterm (Exam 1), 2021-2022
Lecture 1
1→ What type of information about words is NOT stored in the lexicon?
a. spelling
b. meaning
c. all regular verbs
d. all irregular verbs
2→ how many words does an adult speaker know?
a. 5.000-10.000
b. 10.000-100.000
c. 15.000-50.000
d. 15.000-150.000
3→ What happens when one impairs broca’s area in the brain?
a. one has problems with language comprehension
b. one has problems with language learning
c. one has problems with language production
d. one has problems with written language
4→ Which word does not belong to the concept of ‘modularity’?
a. interactivity
b. discrete models
c. autonomous
d. boxology
e. flow diagrams
5→ Which word does not belong to the concept of ‘cascade models’?
a. overlap
b. feedback
c. independent
d. connectionism
e. reverse flow
f. interactivity
6→ what is the right order of placement?
a. hypothesis → theory → model → experiment
b. theory → model → hypothesis → experiment
c. hypothesis → model → theory → experiment
d. theory → hypothesis → model → experiment
, Lecture 2
7→ what is the right order of speech production (according to Levelt, 1989)
a. formulation → conceptualization → articulation
b. syntactic planning → phonological encoding → articulation
c. conceptualization → formulation → articulation
d. phonological encoding → syntactic planning → articulation
8→ which of these statements is correct:
1. during the conceptualization stage one chooses function words
2. during the formulation stage one has lexical access
a. only 1 is correct
b. only 2 is correct
c. both are correct
d. both are incorrect
9→ which of these statements is correct:
3. we barely make any speech errors
4. speech errors are also called ‘Freudian Slips’
a. only 3 is correct
b. only 4 is correct
c. both are correct
d. both are incorrect
10→ why do we study patterns of speech errors?
11→ ‘een bloemetje blengen’ is an example of:
a. substitution
b. perseveration
c. intruder
d. anticipation
12→ ‘Bake my bike’ (take my bike) is an example of:
a. anticipation
b. exchange
c. shift
d. permutation
13→ ‘fancy getting your model renosed’ (getting your nose remodelled) is an example of:
a. spoonerism
b. transposition
c. insertion
d. substitution
