KS20201: Theories of Language Comprehension: India and Beyond

Sample Question Paper 6 (Module 2 of Psycholinguistics)

Date: 27 October 2022

1. Which among the following is/are the early 20th century view/s on word processing?
A. Passive Secretary Approach
B. Fingerprint Approach
C. Both of them
D. None of them

2. Deciphering the sounds of speech is a passive process. True or False.

A. True
B. False

3. A word’s ‘cohort’ consists of:

A. All the words having similar meaning
B. All the words having similar initial phonetic representation
C. All the words having similar morphological structure
D. All the words having connected meaning

4. As soon as a hearer starts listening to a word, s/he wait for that word to end and them
process it. True or False.
A. True
B. False

5. Which among the following processes of word recognition resembles ‘an electric circuit’
where the current flows forward and backward?
A. Cohort model
B. Spreading activation
C. Probable word strategy
D. None of the above

6. Access, Selection and Integration of words are the three processes that are found in:
A. Cohort Model
B. Spreading Activation
C. Connectionism
D. Shortlist Model

7. Consider the following words. Which among them may incur less processing requirement
for an average English speaker?
A. Tzharey
B. Serray
C. Dney
D. Array

8. Ambiguous words with related senses are retrieved faster than the ambiguous words
with unrelated senses. True or False.
A. True
 B. False

9. Which among the following feature/s of a word affect/s the Lexical Decision Task?
A. Ambiguity and Frequency
B. Neighborhood density
C. Semantic priming
D. All of them

10. Word’s neighborhood consists of:

A. All the words having similar initial sounds
B. All the words having similar phonetic representation
C. All the words having same meaning
D. All the words with opposite meaning

11. If a word’s neighborhood is dense or large, it takes longer to retrieve. True or False.
A. True
B. False

12. In Veiled Controlled process of multiple lexical items, which among the following can be
true?
A. This process is neither conscious, nor automatic.
B. This process is faster than conscious controlled process.
C. This process makes fewer demands on limited processing resources.
D. All of them

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SHORT NOTES/ LONG ANSWERS

1. Multiple Lexical Hypothesis (2-4 marks)
2. Explain a Cohort model of word processing (2 marks)
3. Lexical Decision Task (2 marks)