The common term used to describe all types of language is loss is:

Related Mcqs:

1. Noam Chomsky posited that humans have a unique, inborn ability to understand the structure of language and to apply this to language learning. Chomsky called this the _______________?

   A. innate capability index
   B. innate surface structure ability
   C. prosody index
   D. language acquisition device

2. A hypothesis concerning the role of language is shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought is called:

   A. legal- rational authority
   B. Sapir- Whorf hypothesis
   C. Routine activities theory
   D. None of these

3. Phonemes are the smallest units of______in a spoken language; morphemes are the smallest units of_______in language.

   A. sound; syntax
   B. meaning; syntax
   C. syntax; meaning
   D. sound; meaning

4. All of the following qualities describe reasoning by intuition except for:

   A. Occurs automatically
   B. Fast analysis of information
   C. Strong feeling of conviction
   D. Logical analysis

5. According to Pavlov’s dual-code model of memory, the two types of codes used to store long-term memories are ________________?

   A. visual and auditory
   B. semantic and syntactic
   C. implicit and explicit
   D. verbal and visual

6. The first task in psychology is to carefully observe and to objectively describe ___________?

   A. animals
   B. behavior
   C. social institution
   D. symptoms of abnormality

7. When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which test of memory is being utilized?

   A. recall
   B. recognition
   C. rehearsal
   D. reconstruction

8. Who was the first (1686) to describe a manic – depressive psychosis, which he called ‘maniaco – melancholicus’?

   A. Bonet
   B. Albrecht
   C. Jamison
   D. Redfield

9. Five qualities that best describe good psychological research include:

   A. Valid, scientific, ethical, experimental, correlational
   B. Scientific, experimental, public, parsimonious, cumulative
   C. valid, reliable, Public, parsimonious, cumulative
   D. Experimental, quasi-experimental survey, correlational, meta-analytic

10. The process that controls the movement of information from the short-term store into the long-term store is __________________?

    A. retrieval
    B. attention
    C. encoding
    D. recall