University of Florida EXP 3604 CHAPTER 11 1)In a study, participants listened to the following tape recording: “Rumor had it that, for years, the government building had been plagued with problems

University of Florida

EXP 3604

CHAPTER 11

1)In a study, participants listened to the following tape recording: “Rumor had it that, for years, the government building had been plagued with problems. The man was not surprised when he found several spiders, roaches, and other bugs in the corner of the room.” As participants heard the word “bugs,” they completed a lexical decision task to a test stimulus flashed on a screen. To which of the following words would you expect participants to take the longest to respond to?

2. In New Guinea, tribes that had been isolated for centuries were found that
3. Language consists of smaller components, like words, that can be combined to form larger ones, like phrases, to create sentences, which themselves can be components of a larger story. This demonstrates the property of language.
4. Within the realm of conversational speech, knowledge refers to
5. The                   states that the nature of a culture’s language can affect the way people think.
6. In the lexical decision task, participants are asked to
7. Lilo can’t wait for school to start. This year is the first time she gets to take a foreign language class, and she is taking Japanese. Dr. Nabuto is a professor interested in studying how people learn additional languages later in life, and he is including Lilo’s class in his research. Dr. Nabuto is most likely studying
8. Consider the following sentences: “Captain Ahab wanted to kill the whale. He cursed at it.” These two sentences taken together provide an example of a(n)
9. A researcher had participants read each of the sentences below and measured the time it took to read each sentence. Trial 1: the lamb ran past the cottage into the pasture. Trial 2: the dog ran past the house into the yard. The participants’ response times were longer for                because of the  effect.
10. The word “bad” has                     phoneme(s).