Exam 10: Comprehension: Written and Spoken Language

fMRI studies show greater RIGHT hemisphere activation for sentences with definite articles than sentences with indefinite articles.

What are the five dimensions of Zwaan's event indexing model?

Which one of the following does the following exchange illustrate? Question: "Do you accept credit cards?"

The Just & Carpenter model of reading (1980)uses working memory as the location of knowledge integration.

How can priming research be used to learn about conversational interaction?

What is metacomprehension?

In conversation,your beliefs about what your conversational partner knows about you and your interests-what they think you are like-reflect __________.

Knowing a person's region of proximal learning helps avoid __________.

The act of using a pronoun or possessive later on is __________.

Judgments of learning can be thought of as metacomprehension measures.

Which of the following is NOT an online measure of language comprehension processes in cognition?

In what ways can eye tracking data be described as a "window into the mind"?

The advantage of clause recency is limited to highly constrained languages such as English (versus,for example,more flexible languages such as Latin or Spanish).

In the work by Morrow,Greenspan,and Bower (1987)people first memorized a map of a building.Then,when they read stories,they were probed for objects in that building.What they found was that the further a story protagonist was from other objects,__________.

Knowing what you know about metacomprehension,what would you recommend people do when they are studying? Be sure to identify the relevant metacomprehension principles by name.

As new substructures are developed,memory nodes for related concepts increase activation; memory nodes for no longer related information decrease in activation.Gernsbacher defines this as __________.

The idea that each person in a conversation implicitly assumes that all speakers are following the rules and that each contribution to the conversation is a sincere,appropriate contribution-the most basic conversational postulate,stating that participants cooperate by sharing information in an honest fashion-is __________.

During ordinary reading,almost all content words are fixated.

In conversation,your beliefs about your conversational partners' knowledge and interests reflect __________.

"Maria-José was studying hard for her cognition exam."