TB6 D&L Lecture 1 and reading MCQs

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1. In an early, autonomous model, why do less frequent meanings need longer processing time?

  • Because they are harder to activate
  • Becasue they are easier to activate
  • Because they need more evidence --> activation to be considered appropriate
  • Because they need less evidence --> activation to be considered appropriate
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2. What is an issue with phoneme monitering tasks?

  • Sensitive to variables other than ambiguity
  • Temporally too slow
  • Too sensitive to ambiguity
  • Dont accurately measure activation

3. What do dichotic listening tasks suggest?

  • All meanings always accessed
  • Meanings accessed in parallel
  • Meanings accessed serially
  • Pps can attend and unattend messages at will

4. What does it mean if a word has balanced frequency?

  • All alternative meanings are equally common in the language
  • All alternative meanings have different frequencies in the language, one meaning is dominant

5. What did a sentence completion task by Mackay (1996) show?

  • There was no difference in pp RT
  • Pps were slower at completing the sentence with the ambig word
  • Pps were slower at completing the sentence with the non-ambig word
  • Pps were faster at completing the sentence with the ambig word
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