Exam 10: Language and Education

Belmont has a high degree of mastery motivation. On his first psychology test, he scores 52 out of 100 (an "F"). What is his most likely reaction?

The idea that the letters in printed words represent the sounds in spoken words in a systematic way is referred to as the _____ principle.

Literacy is defined as the ability to use

Exposure to rhyming stories is most likely to enhance the _____ aspect of emergent literacy.

A vocabulary dominated by phrases or words like _____ would indicate that a child is using an expressive style of language acquisition.

Transformational grammar is best associated with rules of

Individuals with aphasia can neither hear nor speak.

How does language development progress from cooing until the production of holophrases?

"Go school" is an example of telegraphic speech.

Learning theory does the poorest job of explaining the _____ aspect of language development.

Which is the best example of telegraphic speech?

Universal grammar is best described as

The concept of appropriately matching an environment with a person's characteristics is called

Which is a type of language disorder?

Hamid has just acquired the ability to "sound out" a word. This means that when he sees the word "bend" for the first time, he is able to decode it as "b" plus "e" plus "n" plus "d" and say "bend." Hamid's newfound ability indicates that he has acquired _____ awareness.

Economist Roland Fryer Jr. attempted to determine whether _____ could be used to raise students' standardized test scores.

Research on language acquisition among deaf children has shown that

Concerning language development, joint attention is best defined as occurring when

When someone says, "It's a matter of semantics," they are referring to the _____ of a sentence.

The semantic rules for forming sentences is referred to as