Question 1

The strategy likely to be used to comprehend the sentences Last Christmas Eugene went to a lot of parties. This Christmas he got very drunk again is:

Accepted Answer

A)  anaphoric reference 
B)  reinstatement 
C)  bridging 
D)  none of the above 
A)  anaphoric reference 
B)  reinstatement 
C)  bridging 
D)  none of the above

Question 2

Inferences that are drawn during discourse comprehension:

Accepted Answer

A)  reflect the imaginative contribution of skilled readers 
B)  are the result of recall errors 
C)  are necessary for processing discourse effectively 
D)  are rarely drawn when reading printed material 
A)  reflect the imaginative contribution of skilled readers 
B)  are the result of recall errors 
C)  are necessary for processing discourse effectively 
D)  are rarely drawn when reading printed material

Question 3

Which of the following are strategies for establishing coherence?

Accepted Answer

A)  given/new, direct matching, and reinstating old information 
B)  substitution, ellipsis, and conjunctive 
C)  reiteration, synonomy, and hyponymy 
D)  pronominal, demonstrative, and comparative 
A)  given/new, direct matching, and reinstating old information 
B)  substitution, ellipsis, and conjunctive 
C)  reiteration, synonomy, and hyponymy 
D)  pronominal, demonstrative, and comparative

Question 4

According to the text discussion, the best overall comprehension strategy when faced with unfamiliar material is to:

Accepted Answer

A)  use schemata to guide discourse processing 
B)  draw as many inferences as possible 
C)  use shadowing as much as possible 
D)  pay close attention to local discourse structure 
A)  use schemata to guide discourse processing 
B)  draw as many inferences as possible 
C)  use shadowing as much as possible 
D)  pay close attention to local discourse structure

Question 5

.Kintsch and Keenan (1973) found that sentences with more propositions _____ than those with fewer propositions.

Accepted Answer

A)  are harder to recall 
B)  are easier to recall 
C)  take longer to read 
D)  take less time to read 
A)  are harder to recall 
B)  are easier to recall 
C)  take longer to read 
D)  take less time to read

Question 6

Memory for _______ shows the least forgetting over time.

Accepted Answer

A)  surface text 
B)  verbatim representation 
C)  situations 
D)  propositions 
A)  surface text 
B)  verbatim representation 
C)  situations 
D)  propositions

Question 7

The level of discourse that specifies the meaning of a passage apart from the exact words used is the:

Accepted Answer

A)  surface representation 
B)  verbatim representation 
C)  propositional representation 
D)  situational model 
A)  surface representation 
B)  verbatim representation 
C)  propositional representation 
D)  situational model

Question 8

The distinction between direct matching and bridging is that in bridging:

Accepted Answer

A)  the reference is to something that occurred several sentences back 
B)  the reference is to material that must be inferred 
C)  the reference is by synonym instead of by exact repetition 
D)  the reference has been ellipted 
A)  the reference is to something that occurred several sentences back 
B)  the reference is to material that must be inferred 
C)  the reference is by synonym instead of by exact repetition 
D)  the reference has been ellipted

The strategy likely to be used to comprehend the sentences Last Christmas Eugene went to a lot of parties. This Christmas he got very drunk again is:

Inferences that are drawn during discourse comprehension:

Which of the following are strategies for establishing coherence?

According to the text discussion, the best overall comprehension strategy when faced with unfamiliar material is to:

.Kintsch and Keenan (1973) found that sentences with more propositions _____ than those with fewer propositions.

Memory for _______ shows the least forgetting over time.

The level of discourse that specifies the meaning of a passage apart from the exact words used is the:

The distinction between direct matching and bridging is that in bridging:

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Linguistic Principle

Psychological Mechanisms

Perception of Language

The Internal Lexicon

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Exam 7: Discourse Comprehension and Memory

The strategy likely to be used to comprehend the sentences Last Christmas Eugene went to a lot of parties. This Christmas he got very drunk again is:

Inferences that are drawn during discourse comprehension:

Which of the following are strategies for establishing coherence?

According to the text discussion, the best overall comprehension strategy when faced with unfamiliar material is to:

.Kintsch and Keenan (1973) found that sentences with more propositions _____ than those with fewer propositions.

Memory for _______ shows the least forgetting over time.

The level of discourse that specifies the meaning of a passage apart from the exact words used is the:

The distinction between direct matching and bridging is that in bridging:

Introduction-Themes of Psycholinguistics

Linguistic Principle

Psychological Mechanisms

Perception of Language

The Internal Lexicon

Sentence Comprehension and Memory

Production of Speech and Language

Conversational Interaction

Early Language Acquisition

Later Language Acquisition

Processes of Language Acquisition

Biological Foundations of Language

Language, Culture, and Cognition

Filters