A(n) ____ refers to a juxtaposition of two unlike nouns, thereby asserting their similarities, while not disconfirming their dissimilarities.
a. metaphor
b. synectic
c. semantic comparison
d. analogical act
Ques. 2Your three year-old niece refers to butterflies as flutterbys. She is demonstrating a(n) ____.
a. inversion
b. anticipation
c. perseveration
d. reversal
Ques. 3The sentence, She was as quiet as a mouse, is an example of a ____.
a. simile
b. malapropism
c. metaphor
d. comparator
Ques. 4While writing an essay about his summer vacation, Stan notices that he has written that he enjoyed many days in the son when he intended to write that he had enjoyed many days in the sun.. This is best described as a ____.
a. reversal
b. malapropism
c. spoonerism
d. preservation
Ques. 5A history instructor says to a student, You have hissed all my mystery lectures.. This is best described as a ____.
a. reversal
b. malapropism
c. spoonerism
d. preservation
Ques. 6Which type of error can occur any hierarchical level of linguistic processing including the acoustical and semantic levels?
a. conceptual generation error
b. hypermnesia
c. linguistic output error
d. slip of the tongue
Ques. 7An idea may be correct in terms of how we think about it but we somehow make a mistake when stating it out loud. This type of mistake is called a ____.
a. linguistic output error
b. slip of the tongue
c. conceptual generation error
d. cognitive distortion
Ques. 8A business rival said, I'm glad to beat you, when what he intended to say was I'm glad to meet you.. This illustrates the psychoanalytic concept of ____.
a. semantic confusion
b. conversational errors
c. Jungian similes
d. Freudian slip
Ques. 9I'd really like to be her instead of I'd really like to see her is an example of a linguistic error in which what we mean is different than what we say. It is best characterized as a(n) ____.
a. slip of the tongue
b. interactive-activation
c. linguistic relativism
d. word superiority effect
Ques. 10____ refer to inadvertent errors in what is said, usually as a result of articulatory or semantic confusion.
a. Conceptual confusions
b. Conversational errors
c. Biased productions
d. Slips of the tongue
Ques. 11Bilingual persons completed a sentence-generation task in both of their languages while undergoing fMRI. The results showed that in early bilinguals left-inferior-frontal-gyrus activation for both languages was ____ and that in late bilinguals activation was ____.
a. overlapping; separate
b. overlapping; also overlapping
c. separate; overlapping
d. separate; also separate