Lab Exercise with Quizzing

Read the materials, click on the lab exercise links and take the quizzes. Please note these will open in a new window.

Lab Exercise 1: Word Superiority Experiment

How do we use information we already know about words to help us interpret incoming language? Perform the word superiority experiment.

Follow-Up Quiz 

1. Findings like the word superiority effect would predict that you would be fastest identifying the letter “T” in which of the following displays?

  1. T
  2. QWERTY
  3. Sweaty
  4.  XRSNTB

Ans: C

2. The most common explanation of the word superiority effect is that it results from ______.

  1. top-down processing
  2. bottom-up processing
  3. processing in iconic memory
  4. implicit processing

Ans: A

3. Since the word superiority effect comes from the fact that the letter is in the context of a word, then you might expect that the effect would be larger for ______.

  1. low frequency words
  2. high frequency words
  3. non-words
  4. foreign words (in a language the participant doesn’t know)

Ans: B

 

Lab Exercise 2: Lexical Decision Experiment

This introduces students to the lexical decision task, and offers a demo and additional readings.

Follow-Up Quiz

1. Comparing trials with “doctor and nurse” with the trials containing “doctor and bread” test the ______.

  1. semantic priming effect
  2. phoneme restoration effect
  3. word superiority effect
  4. syntactic priming effect

Ans: A

2. The time that it takes to respond to words in the lexical decision task is used as a measure of ______.

  1. inference building
  2. categorical perception
  3. syntactic
  4. word recognition

Ans: D

3. One of the factors that influence how quickly we can recognize a string of letters as a word include ______.

  1. lexical frequency
  2. semantic domains
  3. cognitive dissonance
  4. syntactical domains

Ans: A

 

Lab Exercise 3: Aphasia Simulations

This exercise requires audio, and works with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome browsers. Read the introductory materiel and click continue at that the bottom of each page (short reading, about 3 pages then the demo). Next, you will arrive at the demo page “Simulating Phonological and Semantic Errors” then “Click play to hear the question and then choose the appropriate answer.” You will complete a demo and then click “next question” for several demonstrations and content.

Follow-Up quiz

1. Which of the following is NOT a basic strategy to help with listening comprehension?

  1. speak slowly but naturally, with pauses between phrases
  2. repeat key words or entire phrases
  3. ask people to speak louder
  4. write down key words

Ans: C

2. Some people with aphasia have difficulty processing the written words that they ______.

  1. hear read to them
  2. are unfamiliar
  3. cannot spell
  4. see

Ans: D

3. Many people with aphasia can understand written words and sentences but be unable to ______.

  1. read them aloud
  2. speak
  3. write them
  4. use them in a sentence

Ans: A