Suppose that you are reading a journal article that supports the special mechanism approach to speech perception. Which of the following statements would you be most likely to see?
a. Humans have an inborn ability that helps them perceive speech sounds.
b. Humans can perceive speech sounds especially well when the sounds are accompanied by music.
c. Speech perception operates in the same way as visual perception.
d. We can remember spoken sentences better than printed sentences.
Question 2If you favor the general mechanism approach to speech perception, you would argue that
a. people process speech sounds the same way that they process other kinds of sounds.
b. humans have a special phonetic module that handles all general speech perception tasks.
c. the McGurk effect does not support the general mechanism approach, but most other research supports this approach.
d. people use categorical perception when listening to a language sound; they do not use categorical perception on other cognitive tasks.
Question 3According to the general mechanism approach, speech perception can be explained by
a. the same kind of learning mechanisms that humans use in acquiring other cognitive skills.
b. an innate ability to acquire language.
c. a neural unit in the temporal lobe of the cortex that is programmed shortly before birth.
d. listeners' skills in coordinating phonemes with the lip position of a speaker.
Question 4According to your textbook, the McGurk effect
a. demonstrates that visual information can influence our speech perception.
b. is similar to an illusory contour, except that it occurs during speech perception.
c. illustrates that we often think we hear a boundary between words, even when the words are run together.
d. shows that phonemes are not pronounced in a consistent fashion.
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