KS20201: Theories of Language Comprehension: India and Beyond

Sample Question Paper 5 (Module 1 of Psycholinguistics)

Date: 14 October 2022

1. State True of False.

The field of psycholinguistics describes linguistic performance.
A. True
B. False

2. The first book on Cognitive Psychology was written by ___.

A. Ulric Neisser
B. George Miller
C. Charles Osgood
D. BF Skinner

3. The first book on Psycholinguistics was written by ___.

A. Ulric Neisser
B. George Miller
C. Charles Osgood
D. BF Skinner

4. Which rules among the following are explicitly coded in language?

A. Phonological and Syntactic
B. Phonological and Morphological
C. Syntactic and Pragmatic
D. Pragmatic and Morphological

5. Who had proposed the Conditioning Theory that suggests that any act of a human being
is a response to the environmental stimuli?
A. George Miller
B. BF Skinner
C. Noam Chomsky
D. Eric Lenneberg

6. Noam Chomsky wrote a review of the book ‘Verbal Behavior’. True or False.
A. True
B. False

7. Eric Lenneberg has argued that language is a biologically controlled behavior. True or
False.
A. True
B. False

8. George Miller has authored:

A. Biological Foundations of Language
B. Aspects of The Theory of Syntax
C. Verbal Behavior
D. The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
9. Who among the following has established the first ever psychological laboratory?
A. Wilhelm Wundt
B. Leonard Bloomfield
C. Ferdinand De Saussure
D. Ludwig Wittgenstein

10. Wilhelm Wundt was known as a ‘Master Psycholinguist’. True or False.

A. True
B. False

11. Who among the following has regarded that a sentence is the primary unit of language
and not a word.
A. Leonard Bloomfield
B. Noam Chomsky
C. George Miller
D. Wilhelm Wundt

12. The dichotomy of a language as Langue and Parole is introduced by:

A. Wilhelm Wundt
B. Leonard Bloomfield
C. Ferdinand De Saussure
D. Ludwig Wittgenstein

13. In the dichotomy of language, Langue refers to:

A. Abstract rules of a language
B. Actual use of a language

14. In the dichotomy of language, Parole refers to:

A. Abstract rules of a language
B. Actual use of a language

15. Broca’s Area is associated with:

A. Frontal Lobe
B. Occipital Lobe
C. Parietal Lobe
D. Temporal Lobe

16. Wernicke’s Area is associated with:

A. Frontal Lobe
B. Occipital Lobe
C. Parietal Lobe
D. Temporal Lobe

17. Broca’s Aphasia is also known as Agrammatism. True or False.

A. True
B. False
18. Consider a person who can speak meaningful words, but s/he lacks syntactic and
morphological structure. This kind of aphasia is known as:
A. Broca’s aphasia
B. Wernicke’s aphasia

19. Consider a person who can speak grammatically (syntactically and morphologically)
fluent words, but words lack semantics/ meaning. This kind of aphasia is known as:
A. Broca’s aphasia
B. Wernicke’s aphasia

20. The first use of experimental method in psycholinguistics is pioneered by:

A. Penfield and Roberts
B. Just and Carpenter
C. Lenneberg and Miller
D. Steinberg and Sciarini

21. Which among the following experimental method has a good temporal resolution but
poor spatial resolution?
A. EEG and ERP
B. ERP and PET
C. fMRI and PET
D. EEG and fMRI

22. Which among the following experimental method has a good spatial resolution:
A. EEG and ERP
B. ERP and PET
C. fMRI and PET
D. EEG and fMRI

23. EEG, PET and Eye-tracking are true online methods of experimentation?
A. True
B. False

24. If a text has long sentences with complex syntactic structure and lexical ambiguity,
which among the following can a researcher may observe?
A. More skips
B. Longer fixations and regressions
C. Short saccades
D. Short fixation durations

25. Phrenology refers to:

A. The study of different areas of the brain as location of various abilities
B. The study of vocal organs that help in speech production
C. The study of acquisition of language in children
D. The study of people with neurological disorders

26. The study of Phrenology is developed by:

A. Eric Lenneberg
 B. Franz Joseph Gall
C. Ulric Neisser
D. Wilder Penfield

27. The notion that the language function is located in one of the two hemispheres, is known
as:
A. Language Lateralization
B. Mental Integration
C. Interactive Activation
D. Event Indexing

28. In Wilhelm Levelt’s model of Speech Production, which among the following refer to the
‘Speaker’s intention to communicate the idea’?
A. Lexical Decision
B. Preverbal Message
C. Lexical Retrieval
D. Semantic Coding

29. Broadly, in comprehending language, semantic encoding comes after phonetic

representation. True or false?
A. True
B. False

30. In the early stages of childhood, the meanings of the words are vague and they gradually
become more precise when children learn to discriminate more finely. This view is
known as:
A. Minimal Attachment
B. The Mental Fog View
C. Structure-Building Framework
D. Late Closure

31. Language, both spoken and written, are innate in the human beings. True or False.
A. True
B. False

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