Question 1

According to the discussion about the cognitive approach to writing,

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A)  most people report that a writing assignment requires a relatively small portion of their cognitive capacity. 
B)  the phonological loop is seldom active when people are working on a writing assignment. 
C)  people often use the "visual" part of the visuospatial sketchpad when they are trying to define a concrete word. 
D)  the central executive is relatively inactive when people are writing a paper. 
A)  most people report that a writing assignment requires a relatively small portion of their cognitive capacity. 
B)  the phonological loop is seldom active when people are working on a writing assignment. 
C)  people often use the "visual" part of the visuospatial sketchpad when they are trying to define a concrete word. 
D)  the central executive is relatively inactive when people are writing a paper.

Question 2

Caroline gestures rhythmically with her hand while rattling off a list of bones in the human body. Caroline is using a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)  deictic gesture. 
B)  iconic gesture. 
C)  beat gesture. 
D)  formal gesture. 
A)  deictic gesture. 
B)  iconic gesture. 
C)  beat gesture. 
D)  formal gesture.

Question 3

Which of the following people provides the most accurate information on the revision phase of writing?

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A)  Satyajit: "Students usually spend very little time in revising a paper they have written." 
B)  Yasujiro: "Students typically underestimate the amount of time they spend in revising their papers." 
C)  Margarethe: "When students are asked to revise sentences written by another person, they typically focus on the organizational problems." 
D)  Luís: "Students are remarkably accurate when identifying the specific grammatical errors in an essay." 
A)  Satyajit: "Students usually spend very little time in revising a paper they have written." 
B)  Yasujiro: "Students typically underestimate the amount of time they spend in revising their papers." 
C)  Margarethe: "When students are asked to revise sentences written by another person, they typically focus on the organizational problems." 
D)  Luís: "Students are remarkably accurate when identifying the specific grammatical errors in an essay."

Question 4

Which of the following statements about language production is correct?

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A)  Roughly the same amount of research has been conducted on language comprehension and language production. 
B)  It is easier to conduct research on language comprehension than on language production. 
C)  During the past decade, psychologists have grown even less interested in language production than in previous years. 
D)  There is much more research on written language production than on spoken language production. 
A)  Roughly the same amount of research has been conducted on language comprehension and language production. 
B)  It is easier to conduct research on language comprehension than on language production. 
C)  During the past decade, psychologists have grown even less interested in language production than in previous years. 
D)  There is much more research on written language production than on spoken language production.

Question 5

Chapter 10 pointed out that people who are working on a writing assignment are operating on a "full-time cognitive overload." This phrase suggests that

Accepted Answer

A)  people need to write down phrases as soon as they are created, to reduce this overload problem. 
B)  decision making is a central component of writing, so that writers can reject ideas that are not productive. 
C)  it's important to transfer ideas from working memory to long-term memory, prior to writing them down. 
D)  writers typically use all the components of working memory, as well as long-term memory. 
A)  people need to write down phrases as soon as they are created, to reduce this overload problem. 
B)  decision making is a central component of writing, so that writers can reject ideas that are not productive. 
C)  it's important to transfer ideas from working memory to long-term memory, prior to writing them down. 
D)  writers typically use all the components of working memory, as well as long-term memory.

Question 6

On which of the following tasks is a bilingual child likely to have some difficulty, compared with a monolingual child?

Accepted Answer

A)  Understanding the structure of his or her native language. 
B)  Awareness that names are arbitrarily assigned to concepts. 
C)  Sensitivity to the pragmatics of language conversation. 
D)  Processing language quickly. 
A)  Understanding the structure of his or her native language. 
B)  Awareness that names are arbitrarily assigned to concepts. 
C)  Sensitivity to the pragmatics of language conversation. 
D)  Processing language quickly.

Question 7

Anne is 20 years old, and she has spoken English all her life. She has taken Spanish courses in both high school and college. She enrolls in a study-abroad program in Buenos Aires and becomes fluent in Spanish, before returning to the United States. Annes situation is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  sequential bilingualism. 
B)  simultaneous bilingualism. 
C)  metalinguistics. 
D)  multilingualism. 
A)  sequential bilingualism. 
B)  simultaneous bilingualism. 
C)  metalinguistics. 
D)  multilingualism.

Question 8

Compared to speaking, writing is more likely

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A)  to be carefully studied by researchers. 
B)  to be performed in isolation. 
C)  to be an automatic process. 
D)  to establish common ground. 
A)  to be carefully studied by researchers. 
B)  to be performed in isolation. 
C)  to be an automatic process. 
D)  to establish common ground.

Question 9

Hsi-Yen came to the United States from China when she was 14. Compared to her brother, who was 5 when he arrived, Hsi-Yen is most likely to have difficulty with

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A)  phonology. 
B)  constructing a simple sentence. 
C)  mastery of pragmatics. 
D)  vocabulary. 
A)  phonology. 
B)  constructing a simple sentence. 
C)  mastery of pragmatics. 
D)  vocabulary.

Question 10

When revising their papers, first-year college students are more likely than expert writers to

Accepted Answer

A)  spend a large percentage of the time revising their writing. 
B)  approach the revision phase one sentence at a time. 
C)  provide a specific diagnosis for a defective sentence. 
D)  figure out whether their writing shows good transitions between ideas. 
A)  spend a large percentage of the time revising their writing. 
B)  approach the revision phase one sentence at a time. 
C)  provide a specific diagnosis for a defective sentence. 
D)  figure out whether their writing shows good transitions between ideas.

Question 11

According to the introductory discussion of bilingualism,

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A)  more than half of the people in the world are at least partially bilingual. 
B)  technically, a multilingual is someone who speaks two different languages that have different historical origins. 
C)  a speaker's first language is the language that she or he currently speaks most fluently. 
D)  the majority of the world's bilinguals learned their second language during high school. 
A)  more than half of the people in the world are at least partially bilingual. 
B)  technically, a multilingual is someone who speaks two different languages that have different historical origins. 
C)  a speaker's first language is the language that she or he currently speaks most fluently. 
D)  the majority of the world's bilinguals learned their second language during high school.

Question 12

According to the discussion of word production in Chapter10,

Accepted Answer

A)  the most challenging aspect of language production is the motor movements required to produce the various phonemes. 
B)  researchers agree that during language production, we simultaneously retrieve information about three components of language-grammar, meaning, and sound. 
C)  if you try to produce a particular noun, you will often retrieve it more effectively if you make a hand gesture. 
D)  most college-educated North Americans have a speaking vocabulary of about 25,000 words. 
A)  the most challenging aspect of language production is the motor movements required to produce the various phonemes. 
B)  researchers agree that during language production, we simultaneously retrieve information about three components of language-grammar, meaning, and sound. 
C)  if you try to produce a particular noun, you will often retrieve it more effectively if you make a hand gesture. 
D)  most college-educated North Americans have a speaking vocabulary of about 25,000 words.

Question 13

Your textbook discusses a 2010 study, with bilingual Arab Israeli students who were enrolled at a university in Israel. The fluently bilingual researcher spoke to students in either Arabic or Hebrew. The results of this study showed that these students:

Accepted Answer

A)  understood the instructions better if they were tested in their first language (Arabic), even though they were supposed to be bilingual. 
B)  understood the instructions better if they were tested in their second language (Hebrew), even though they were supposed to be bilingual. 
C)  had more positive attitudes toward Jewish individuals when the researcher was speaking Hebrew. 
D)  had more positive attitudes toward Jewish individuals when the researcher was speaking Arabic. 
A)  understood the instructions better if they were tested in their first language (Arabic), even though they were supposed to be bilingual. 
B)  understood the instructions better if they were tested in their second language (Hebrew), even though they were supposed to be bilingual. 
C)  had more positive attitudes toward Jewish individuals when the researcher was speaking Hebrew. 
D)  had more positive attitudes toward Jewish individuals when the researcher was speaking Arabic.

Question 14

A sentence that asks someone to do something is called a

Accepted Answer

A)  directive. 
B)  heuristic. 
C)  structural ambiguity. 
D)  pragmatic. 
A)  directive. 
B)  heuristic. 
C)  structural ambiguity. 
D)  pragmatic.

Question 15

You are testing the cognitive abilities of three groups of bilingual French-English speakers in Montreal, whose native language is French: university students, English teachers, and French-English interpreters. On a test of reading span, administered in English, you would expect that

Accepted Answer

A)  The teachers would perform the best, followed by the interpreters and the students. 
B)  there would be no significant differences between the groups. 
C)  the interpreters would perform significantly better than the teachers and students. 
D)  the interpreters and teachers would perform similarly, and would outperform the students significantly. 
A)  The teachers would perform the best, followed by the interpreters and the students. 
B)  there would be no significant differences between the groups. 
C)  the interpreters would perform significantly better than the teachers and students. 
D)  the interpreters and teachers would perform similarly, and would outperform the students significantly.

Question 16

Suppose that you are telling a story. According to the research on narratives,

Accepted Answer

A)  you are likely to interrupt your story several times to ask your listeners whether they have had similar experiences. 
B)  you are not likely to preplan the organization of the narrative before you speak. 
C)  the organization of this kind of discourse generally has a fairly clear structure. 
D)  people typically begin a narrative by emphasizing the point of the narrative. 
A)  you are likely to interrupt your story several times to ask your listeners whether they have had similar experiences. 
B)  you are not likely to preplan the organization of the narrative before you speak. 
C)  the organization of this kind of discourse generally has a fairly clear structure. 
D)  people typically begin a narrative by emphasizing the point of the narrative.

According to the discussion about the cognitive approach to writing,

Caroline gestures rhythmically with her hand while rattling off a list of bones in the human body. Caroline is using a(n)

Which of the following people provides the most accurate information on the revision phase of writing?

Which of the following statements about language production is correct?

Chapter 10 pointed out that people who are working on a writing assignment are operating on a "full-time cognitive overload." This phrase suggests that

On which of the following tasks is a bilingual child likely to have some difficulty, compared with a monolingual child?

Anne is 20 years old, and she has spoken English all her life. She has taken Spanish courses in both high school and college. She enrolls in a study-abroad program in Buenos Aires and becomes fluent in Spanish, before returning to the United States. Annes situation is an example of

Compared to speaking, writing is more likely

Hsi-Yen came to the United States from China when she was 14. Compared to her brother, who was 5 when he arrived, Hsi-Yen is most likely to have difficulty with

When revising their papers, first-year college students are more likely than expert writers to

According to the introductory discussion of bilingualism,

According to the discussion of word production in Chapter10,

Your textbook discusses a 2010 study, with bilingual Arab Israeli students who were enrolled at a university in Israel. The fluently bilingual researcher spoke to students in either Arabic or Hebrew. The results of this study showed that these students:

A sentence that asks someone to do something is called a

You are testing the cognitive abilities of three groups of bilingual French-English speakers in Montreal, whose native language is French: university students, English teachers, and French-English interpreters. On a test of reading span, administered in English, you would expect that

Suppose that you are telling a story. According to the research on narratives,

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According to the discussion about the cognitive approach to writing,

Caroline gestures rhythmically with her hand while rattling off a list of bones in the human body. Caroline is using a(n)

Which of the following people provides the most accurate information on the revision phase of writing?

Which of the following statements about language production is correct?

Chapter 10 pointed out that people who are working on a writing assignment are operating on a "full-time cognitive overload." This phrase suggests that

On which of the following tasks is a bilingual child likely to have some difficulty, compared with a monolingual child?

Anne is 20 years old, and she has spoken English all her life. She has taken Spanish courses in both high school and college. She enrolls in a study-abroad program in Buenos Aires and becomes fluent in Spanish, before returning to the United States. Annes situation is an example of

Compared to speaking, writing is more likely

Hsi-Yen came to the United States from China when she was 14. Compared to her brother, who was 5 when he arrived, Hsi-Yen is most likely to have difficulty with

When revising their papers, first-year college students are more likely than expert writers to

According to the introductory discussion of bilingualism,

According to the discussion of word production in Chapter10,

Your textbook discusses a 2010 study, with bilingual Arab Israeli students who were enrolled at a university in Israel. The fluently bilingual researcher spoke to students in either Arabic or Hebrew. The results of this study showed that these students:

A sentence that asks someone to do something is called a

You are testing the cognitive abilities of three groups of bilingual French-English speakers in Montreal, whose native language is French: university students, English teachers, and French-English interpreters. On a test of reading span, administered in English, you would expect that

Suppose that you are telling a story. According to the research on narratives,

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Working Memory

Long-Term Memory

Memory Strategies and Metacognition

Mental Imagery and Cognitive Maps

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Deductive Reasoning and Decision Making

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