Question 1

An individual who can physically see known written words, but has no idea what the meaning is, suffers from:

Accepted Answer

A) Dyslexia 
B) Neologism 
C) Alexia 
D) Paraphasia

Question 2

A primary reason apes cannot "speak" English is because their larynx cannot produce the necessary range of sounds.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Children with autism prefer speech produced by their parents over those sounds made by a computer.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Why can it be so difficult to learn a second language as an adult?

Accepted Answer

A) The attention span of infants and children is better geared toward learning a language" 
B) Adults have lost the ability to discriminate between phonemes that are not used in their native language" 
C) Adults are unable to form new connections in the language regions of the brain" 
D) All of the above"

Question 5

What is one obstacle to using fMRI to study brain regions?

Accepted Answer

A) Every brain is structurally different 
B) The data from the brain images is averaged together, blurring the information 
C) You need a lot of participants to achieve statistical significance 
D) All of the above

Question 6

Patients who are unable to _______ nouns are nonetheless able to recognize objects.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Patients who are unable to _______ nouns...

Question 7

If the muscle fibers or sound-producing organs used to produce speech are injured, the result is:

Accepted Answer

A) Dysarthris" 
B) Anomia" 
C) Williams syndrome" 
D) Dysphonia"

Question 8

According to the analytic-synthetic theory, the right hemisphere is thought to be more of the "big picture" hemisphere.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Split-brain patients are those who have undergone:

Accepted Answer

A) A lobotomy" 
B) The Wada test" 
C) A corpus callosotomy" 
D) Electrical stimulation mapping"

Question 10

The inability to repeat words spoken by another is called:

Accepted Answer

A) Expressive aphasia" 
B) Global aphasia" 
C) Conduction aphasia" 
D) Receptive aphasia"

Question 11

Damage to the left hemisphere can cause both language and __________ problems.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Damage to the left hemisphere can cause...

Question 12

An individual is showing an inability to communicate effectively. They speak slowly and with great difficulty, and leave out connecting words such as "and". This person most likely is suffering from:

Accepted Answer

A) Receptive aphasia" 
B) Fluent aphasia" 
C) Expressive aphasia" 
D) Wernicke's aphasia"

Question 13

Aphasias can only by caused by damage to Broca's area.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Often those with dyslexia have _____ problems.

Accepted Answer

A) Intelligence" 
B) Visual" 
C) Speech production" 
D) Auditory"

Question 15

The viewpoint that humans are wired to learn a language is called:

Accepted Answer

A) Analytic-synthetic theory" 
B) Linguistic nativism" 
C) Language theory" 
D) Universal grammar"

Question 16

Statistical learning __________ in language in order to figure out its meaning.

Accepted Answer

A) Focuses on pitch and amplitude changes 
B) Listens for errors 
C) Compares phonetic differences 
D) All of the above

Question 17

Infants learn what vocalizations are useful through the attention of caregivers.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The corpus callosum connects:

Accepted Answer

A) Frontal lobe to the temporal lobe" 
B) The two hemispheres of the brain" 
C) Left superior frontal gyrus to the left middle frontal gyrus" 
D) Broca's area to Wernicke's area"

Question 19

If a doctor puts an object in a person's right visual field and asked the person to name the object and point to it, then puts the same object in their left visual field and asks the person to name the object and point to it, the doctor may be checking for:

Accepted Answer

A) William's syndrome 
B) Dyslexia 
C) hemispheric lateralization 
D) Amusia

Question 20

When babies are born, they can only hear a limited amount of sounds in the human language.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 11: Language and Lateralization

An individual who can physically see known written words, but has no idea what the meaning is, suffers from:

A primary reason apes cannot "speak" English is because their larynx cannot produce the necessary range of sounds.

Children with autism prefer speech produced by their parents over those sounds made by a computer.

Why can it be so difficult to learn a second language as an adult?

What is one obstacle to using fMRI to study brain regions?

Patients who are unable to _______ nouns are nonetheless able to recognize objects.

If the muscle fibers or sound-producing organs used to produce speech are injured, the result is:

According to the analytic-synthetic theory, the right hemisphere is thought to be more of the "big picture" hemisphere.

Split-brain patients are those who have undergone:

The inability to repeat words spoken by another is called:

Damage to the left hemisphere can cause both language and __________ problems.

An individual is showing an inability to communicate effectively. They speak slowly and with great difficulty, and leave out connecting words such as "and". This person most likely is suffering from:

Aphasias can only by caused by damage to Broca's area.

Often those with dyslexia have _____ problems.

The viewpoint that humans are wired to learn a language is called:

Statistical learning __________ in language in order to figure out its meaning.

Infants learn what vocalizations are useful through the attention of caregivers.

The corpus callosum connects:

If a doctor puts an object in a person's right visual field and asked the person to name the object and point to it, then puts the same object in their left visual field and asks the person to name the object and point to it, the doctor may be checking for:

When babies are born, they can only hear a limited amount of sounds in the human language.