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1
Dr. Murray studies how people understand and produce language. Most likely he is a psycholinguist.
A)True
B)False
2
Pragmatics refers to the meaning of words and sentences.
A)True
B)False
3
Aphasia is an impairment in speech comprehension and/or production that can be permanent or temporary.
A)True
B)False
4
Chomsky proposes that humans are born prewired, or with a language acquisition device, to learn general grammatical rules common to all languages.
A)True
B)False
5
Child-directed speech is a high-pitched intonation that adults use to gain a young child's attention.
A)True
B)False
6
Research suggests that bilingualism is not associated with greater thinking flexibility or higher performance on nonverbal intelligence tests.
A)True
B)False
7
Vision therapy is an effective treatment for dyslexia.
A)True
B)False
8
The research on Washoe, Nim, Kanzi and other apes indicates that apes are capable of mastering all five rules of language ability as well human can.
A)True
B)False
9
With deductive reasoning, we reason from a general principle to a specific case. With inductive reasoning, we reason from specific facts to a general principle.
A)True
B)False
10
Algorithms are mental images that one can rotate in the mind's eye until the image lines up sufficiently with another object.
A)True
B)False
11
Divergent thinking refers to the generation of novel ideas that depart from the norm.
A)True
B)False





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