Language comprehension is associated with _______________ area of the brain?

Related Mcqs:

1. The capacity of the brain area to take over the function of another damaged brain area is known as brain _______________?

   A. regeneration
   B. accommodation
   C. aphasia
   D. plasticity

2. Impaired language comprehension following a stroke would most probably be diagnosed as ________________?

   A. dyslexia
   B. aphagia
   C. Wernicke’s
   D. Broca’s aphasia

3. The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area is known as brain:

   A. tomography
   B. hemispherectomy
   C. phrenology
   D. plasticity

4. Which TWO of the following statements are true of parsing?
   1.Psycholinguistics has been especially concerned with how people parse sentences- that is, how they break them down into their correct phonological structures.
   2.Parsing has to be done because otherwise, it would be impossible to interpret a sentence to all.
   3.The difficulty in understanding some sentences can be ascribed to an initial misinterpretation ; this is called a ‘country walk’.
   4.Misparsing a sentence can result in failure in comprehension at all levels.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 4
   D. 3 & 4

5. 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

6. A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?

   A. retroactive inhibition
   B. anterograde amnesia
   C. proactive inhibition
   D. retrograde amnesia

7. The most obvious difference between the human brain and the brain of a carp would be in the:

   A. hypothalamus
   B. thalamus
   C. cerebellum
   D. cerebral cortex

8. The brain area central to language production is __________?

   A. Broca’s area
   B. Sylvain fissure
   C. Wernicke’s area
   D. fissure of Ronaldo

9. Pervez has profound difficulty producing spoken language. if his problem attributable to brain damage would probably be found in:

   A. the cerebellum
   B. Sperry’s area
   C. Broca’s area
   D. Wernicke’s area

10. 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