The McGurk effect illustrates the importance of _____ on speech perception.
A) the motor cortex
B) articulators
C) formants
D) vision
A measure of schizophrenia that measures only elements of auditory hallucinations, but not other symptoms of schizophrenia, would be said to have
a. low reliability.
b. high convergent validity.
c. low content validity.
d. low face validity.
The voice onset time (VOT) for the sound /da/ is 17 ms, and the VOT for the sound /ta/ is 91 msec. When a computer produces a sound with a VOT of 65 ms, listeners are likely to report hearing _____.
A) the /da/ sound
B) the /ta/ sound
C) the /ja/ sound
D) a combination of /ta/ and /da/
If the average correlation among the items on an anxiety scale is r = .95, we can say that the scale has
a. high content validity.
b. low internal consistency.
c. high internal consistency.
d. high construct validity.
The existence of phonetic boundaries _____.
A) is currently debated among speech perception researchers
B) only occurs at VOTs of greater than 250 ms
C) has been demonstrated using discrimination experiments
D) shows that categorical perception does not occur in speech perception
Which of the following would be likely to improve the reliability and validity of a measure?
a. Using only one measure to assess the conceptual variable
b. Reducing the number of questions on the test
c. Using pilot testing to select good questions
d. Decreasing the variability of measures
The ubiquitous Whazzup is a sloppy pronunciation of What's up? The spectrograms of each of these two spoken phrases would indicate _____.
A) no difference in the spectrograms between the two phrases
B) only a difference in the frequency axis between the two phrases
C) that there is a pause in the middle of What's up?
D) major differences between the two, especially in the middle of the spectrograms
Reliability is used to assess _____________, whereas validity is used to assess _____________.
a. the consistency of a measure; the accuracy of a measure
b. the accuracy of a measure; the consistency of a measure
c. the generalizability of a measure; the reactance of a measure
d. test reactance of a measure; the generalizability of a measure
The overlap between the production of neighboring phonemes is called _____.
A) contiguity
B) Consolidation
C) coarticulation
D) Context
A test designed to measure baseball performance skills would be said to have high predictive validity if a person who scores low on the test also
a. scores low on a test measuring basketball performance.
b. scores high on a test measuring basketball performance.
c. has a poor batting average over the baseball season.
d. scores high on the same test given two weeks later.
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