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.

Related Mcqs:

1. Select the TWO correct statements from those below with regard to psychological research:
   1.You can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
   2. if two things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
   3. A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
   4. In most countries, in order to become a psychologist, you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.

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

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 perceptual processes that make use of preexisting knowledge to interpret new information are called _______________?

   A. sensory processes
   B. top-down processes
   C. bottom-up processes
   D. parallel processes

4. A concept that help us to interpret ambiguous sensations is called a:

   A. Gestalt
   B. Perceptual constancy
   C. Schema
   D. Perceptual adaptation

5. Language comprehension is associated with _______________ area of the brain?

   A. Broca’s
   B. Gage’s
   C. Forester’s
   D. Wernicke’s

6. Consider the following statements: Moral understanding in a child of 5 years of age is limited because of their:

   A. cognitive immaturity
   B. belief in immanent justice
   C. belief in absolution of moral perspective
   D. All of the above

7. Damage to hippocampus would result in difficulty ____________?

   A. understanding language
   B. producing language
   C. encoding new information into long-term memory
   D. processing sensory information

8. Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
   1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
   2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
   3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
   4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1

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

9. In the study on group communication and leadership, which communication styles would it be impossible to predict who would be seen as the group leader?

   A. the chain and wheel communications
   B. the y and circle communications
   C. the y and free communications
   D. the circle and free communications

10. When related sentences are put together to make a sensible message, this is referred to as:

    A. Context
    B. Semantics
    C. Pragmatics
    D. Discourse