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Chapter 6: Language Quiz
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1.
Language is a cultural universal.
False
True
2.
Psammetichus
invented cuneiform
was the first to discover how hearing worked
commanded that two babies be raised without language
compiled the design features of language
3.
The design feature that indicates words do not resemble the things they represent is
displacement
productivity
cultural transmission
arbitrariness
4.
The deep structural rules of language are called
cultural transmission
displacement
arbitrariness
grammar
5.
The ability to talk about things not in our immediate environment is called
cultural relativity
displacement
productivity
grammar
6.
The only gene currently known to influence language is
LING21
CAT36
LANGP7
FOXP2
7.
Vervet monkeys have
specific calls for specific predators
displacement
productivity
grammar
8.
Gua
was a chimp raised alongside Donald, a human boy
was far behind Donald in her developmental skills
learned ASL
learned to use lexigrams
9.
An example of animal displacement in the wild is
"drink-fruit"
vervet monkeys having alarm calls for specific predators
multi-lingual monkeys
the waggle dance of the honey bee
10.
An example of cultural transmission of language in the wild is
monkey's bluff
"drink-fruit"
waggle dance of the honey bee
multi-lingual monkeys
11.
Washoe was taught
to drive a car
how to make gin and tonics
lexigrams
American Sign Language
12.
Drink-fruit and finger-bracelet are potential examples of
cultural transmission
prevarication
productivity
displacement
13.
Koko’s conversation about being a bird could be an example of
productivity
displacement
grammar
arbitrariness
14.
Kanzi was not taught ASL but rather
memory tests
lexigrams
algebra
to paint
15.
Subconsciously prompting an animal to respond correctly is called
arbitrariness
the Clever Hans Effect
Nim Chimpsky
displacement
16.
Selecting the evidence that confirms your hypothesis while ignoring results that do not is called
cherry picking
monkey's bluff
Clever Hans
cultural relativity
17.
The idea that the structure of language influences how people think is called
the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
the Clever Hans Effect
neologisms
FOXP2
18.
Jonthan Gottschall argues that Homo sapiens are better described as
Homo Deus
Homo fictus
Homo spiritualis
Homologous
Chapter 5: Marriage
Chapter 7: Primates
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