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Who were the participants in the Test-Enhanced Learning experiment conducted by Roediger and Karpicke in 2006? (This was our research discussion.)
What is Washington University undergraduates?
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What is a production task?
What is to name as many of something (like fruits) as possible?
100
What are the smallest parts of words that when changed, affect words meaning?
What are phonemes?
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Give an example of a phoneme exchange.
What is “fleaky squoor”?
100
What do speech errors tell us?
What is that we think about what we are about to say, and we focus on one phrase at a time?
200
What was the experiment called where participants voices were recorded and then played back to them?
What is Waiting Room Experiment?
200
What is the difference between characteristic features and defining features?
Characteristic features are typical of an object and defining features are necessary for that object.
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The study of word meaning.
What is semantics?
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True or false: We have a larger expressive than receptive vocabulary.
What is false, we have a larger receptive than expressive vocabulary.
200
What do we list first while doing a production task?
What is the exemplar or prototypes?
300
What did the cough cover up in the cough experiment?
What is a sound congruent with the sentence? Example: It was found that the (p)eel was on the orange.
300
What is the difference between the prototype and exemplar approach?
The prototype approach compares stimuli to average characteristics that all things of that category have. The exemplar approach compares stimuli to a specific category member.
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What is co articulation?
What is more than one phoneme at a time affecting the way we say a word?
300
“John pounded the nail” is an example of what kind of inference?
What is instrumental?
300
What is the definition of displacement?
What is that we can speak about ideas that are not tied to the present moment or place?
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About what percent of their own words could participants identify in the waiting room experiment?
What is 50%?
400
What was the result of the Mashed Potato Experiment?
What is when there was context that the dishes would hold mashed potatoes, the participant was more likely to call the dishes bowls? Also, when the opening of the bowl was bigger, the participant was more liekly to say bowl. So, context makes a difference.
400
Give three examples of morphemes.
What is pre-, sub-, -less, -ly, -s, -es...etc.
400
What is a garden-path sentence?
What is a sentence where the meaning implied at the beginning leads you astray?
400
What is syntactic priming?
What is when the grammatical construction that one person previously used increases the chances that a second person will use that same grammatical construction?
500
What is the experiment called where a confederate reads statements to a participant from behind a screen and the participant must find the corresponding card?
What is the Syntactic Priming Experiment?
500
What three things are evidence for prototypes and exemplars?
What is production tasks, sentence verification, and thinking about categories?
500
What are the five characteristics of human language?
What is semanticity, arbitrariness, flexibility and naming, displacement, and productivity?
500
Give an example of a spoonerism. (100 extra points if the group can give a second example.)
What is “fighting a liar” vs. “lighting a fire” and “take a shower” vs. “shake a tower”?
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Give an example for the three types of inferences we make regarding semantic meaning: anaphoric, instrumental, and causal.
Anaphoric: Joe went to the movies this weekend. He saw Star Wars. Instrumental: John pounded the nail. Causal: Jill didn't study, she failed the exam.