A. There is one principle class of phenomena that requires more than literal meaning
B. In understanding metaphor the processor first has to parse sentences than has to determine their significance too
C. The meaning of “Could you close the door?” can be established on the basis of semantics alone
D. Both a & b
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?
A. At an early oral stage children usually start to explore their environment but experience control and discipline from their parents
B. Fixation at the anal stage results in children deriving pleasure in adulthood from activities such as overeating, smoking, drinking and kissing
C. At the genital stage children discover pleasure from touching their genitals
D. During the latency period sexual impulses are rechanneled into activities such as sport, learning and social activities - A theory that states that emotions are a join result of non-specific physiological arousal and interpretation of the arousal is called__________?
A. Two-factor theory of emotion
B. James-Lange theory of emotion
C. Bem’s theory of emotion
D. None of these - A theory that states that emotions are a join result of non-specific physiological arousal and interpretation of the arousal is called ____________?
A. Two-factor theory of emotion
B. James-Lange theory of emotion
C. Bem’s theory of emotion
D. None of these - For Noam Chomsky, the semantic interpretation of a sentence comes from ________________?
A. surface structure
B. deep structure
C. divergent thinking
D. transformational rules - According to Mischel and Shoda’s (1995) cognitive-effective units in the personality system, what category refers to how processes such as selective attention, interpretation, and categorization of events affect personality?
A. Competencies
B. Goals and values
C. Affects
D. Encodings - Incompleteness of data of interpretation or unwarranted application of conclusions also may be a cause of research:
A. Adequacy
B. Inadequacy
C. Application
D. Disturbance - 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 - With respect to anagram problems, which of the following statements are correct?
A. The simplest strategy is blind search, in which you just move to letters around blindly until a phrase appears
B. Constraining the search space will help to speed up the problem-solving process
C. All the problems can be construed in terms of search spaces
D. All of the above - 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 - 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
