A. the jargon stage
B. spontaneous babbling
C. telegraphic speech
D. holophrastic speech
Related Mcqs:
- Jimmy is at the stage of language development where he uses one word to convey a complete thought or idea. This is called:
A. holophrastic speech
B. jargon speech
C. telegraphic speech
D. phonemes - We are more likely to remember the words “typewriter, cigarette and fire” than the words “void, process and inherent” because the first three words are more likely to be _________________ encoded?
A. automatically
B. visually
C. proactively
D. implicitly - 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 - The idea that the amount of change in a stimulus necessary to produce a JND is a constant proportion of the stimulus intensity is called:
A. James law
B. The all-or-none principle
C. The law of diminishing returns
D. Weber’s law - Words, events, places and emotions that trigger our memory of the past are called __________________?
A. context effects
B. iconic traces
C. retrieval cues
D. schemas - Maham forgot to bring a pillow on the camping trip, so she spent a very uncomfortable and restless night. Unfortunately, she never thought of using her down-filed jacket as a pillow. Maham’s oversight best illustrates:
A. functional fixedness
B. confirmation bias
C. overconfidence
D. the availability heuristic - What would Gestalt psychologist say is reversing in a reversible figure, such as the vase-faces figure in your textbook?
A. figure-ground relations
B. perception of similarity
C. good continuation
D. border and texture - A tone-deaf person would probably not be able to tell two musical notes apart unless they were very different. We could say that this person has a relatively large:
A. just noticeable difference
B. relative threshold
C. absolute threshold
D. detection threshold - Which of the following statements are true? 1. On a vernier acuity task, humans can discern the direction of very tiny offsets, but performance deteriorates with practice. 2. Different types of visual search have different behavioural characteristics and depend on different brain regions. 3. Walsh et.al. (1998) suggest that the right parietal lobe may be involved in setting up new templates in the conjunctions of, say, colour and form. 4 All of the above.
A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 3
D. 4 - What can we say about aggression in males and females?
A. Women may learn different aggressive strategies from those used by man who are the physically stronger sex
B. Aggression in males may be expressed directly (e.g. fighting) but aggression in females may be expressed indirectly (e.g. gossiping about someone)
C. If relational victimization of girls and if aggression is seen as means of hurting someone than women may not differ so much from men in terms of using aggression
D. All of the above
