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After suffering brain damage in a car accident, John can understand language but is no
longer able to form words. In which area of the brain did he most likely suffer damage?
a. Broca's
b. LAD
c. occipital
d. Wernicke's - CORRECT ANS- -a. Broca's
All of the following are among the six key principles in young children's vocabulary
development (as detailed by Harris, Golinkoff, & Hirsh-Pasek) EXCEPT:
a. that children best learn the words they hear most often.
b. that children learn words for things and events that interest them.
c. that children learn words best when grammar is not practiced along with vocabulary.
d. that children learn words best in contexts that are meaningful. - CORRECT ANS- -d. that
children learn words best when grammar is not practiced along with vocabulary.
All of the following is true of speech in older adults EXCEPT that it is typically:
a. less fluent.
b. lower in volume.
c. slower.
d. less than adequate for everyday communication. - CORRECT ANS- -d. less than
adequate for everyday communication.
Preschool children learn and apply syntax rules. The grammatical error we observe in the
question "When we are going outside?" is an example of difficulty with mastering:
,a. fast mapping.
b. auxiliary-inversion rule.
c. overgeneralization.
d. placement of a wh- word at the beginning of a sentence. - CORRECT ANS- -b. auxiliary-
inversion rule.
Research on the ability of infants to understand words indicates that infants:
a. understand words well before they can produce them.
b. start to understand words well before 3 months of age.
c. understand words only after they can produce them.
d. do not understand words until around 13 months of age. - CORRECT ANS- -a.
understand words well before they can produce them.
Behaviorists believe that language is:
a. a special skill that has emerged with biological evolution.
b. a complex learned skill, much like dancing or playing the piano.
c. a skill that is controlled by the left hemisphere of the brain.
d. learned with the LAD. - CORRECT ANS- -b. a complex learned skill, much like dancing or
playing the piano.
Jenny is at the zoo with her family. She points to each animal and says "doggie." This
illustrates:
a. a vocabulary spurt.
b. overextension.
c. underextension.
d. telegraphic speech. - CORRECT ANS- -b. overextension.
,In a baby's first year of life, what vocalization stage comes after crying?
a. babbling
b. first words
c. cooing
d. gestures - CORRECT ANS- -c. cooing
When Juan moved to the United States from Mexico, he spoke only Spanish. After some
time, he spoke Spanish and English. Now he only speaks English. This is an example of:
a. the whole-language approach.
b. the bilingual approach.
c. the dual-language approach.
d. subtractive bilingualism. - CORRECT ANS- -d. subtractive bilingualism.
In social situations, 4- to 5-year-olds will typically:
a. avoid speaking to adults.
b. speak the same to peers as they would to a 2-year-old.
c. speak the same to adults as they would to a peer.
d. use shorter sentences when speaking to a 2-year-old. - CORRECT ANS- -d. use shorter
sentences when speaking to a 2-year-old.
According to Berninger, children who enter elementary school with a small vocabulary are
at risk for developing:
a. writing problems.
b. speech problems.
c. reading problems.
d. behavior problems. - CORRECT ANS- -c. reading problems.
, Two-year-old Aiden asks his mom if she "bringed" his favorite toy with her. His use of "ed"
on the end of the word "bring" to make it past tense indicates an understanding of:
a. morphology.
b. pragmatics.
c. phonology.
d. phonemes. - CORRECT ANS- -a. morphology.
When a child struggles with speech and language development, the professional who
provides therapeutic intervention is a(n):
a. pediatrician.
b. speech therapist.
c. elocutionist.
d. English tutor. - CORRECT ANS- -b. speech therapist.
According to Hart and Risley, which group of parents talked less to their young children,
talked less about past events, and provided less elaboration?
a. welfare parents
b. middle-class parents
c. single parents
d. professional parents - CORRECT ANS- -a. welfare parents
The Wild Boy of Aveyron was most likely not able to learn to communicate with language
effectively because:
a. he had not lived in an environment that exposed him to normal human language before
he was found.
b. he did not have the LAD needed to learn language.
c. he had brain deficiencies in Broca's area at birth.
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