Why is research on language comprehension easier to conduct than research on language production?
a. Language comprehension occurs more frequently than language production.
b. Language comprehension can be studied with participants of all ages, whereas language production can only be studied in older children and adults.
c. Language comprehension is more overt, whereas language production is more covert.
d. It is easier to manipulate a variable that can influence language comprehension than it is to manipulate a variable that can influence language production.
Question 2One reason that psychologists conduct relatively little research on language production is that
a. it is difficult to conduct research that is ethically appropriate.
b. the research overemphasizes the introspection technique.
c. it is difficult to manipulate the relevant independent variables.
d. people make numerous mistakes in producing language.
Question 3Which of the following statements about language production is correct?
a. Roughly the same amount of research has been conducted on language comprehension and language production.
b. It is easier to conduct research on language comprehension than on language production.
c. During the past decade, psychologists have grown even less interested in language production than in previous years.
d. There is much more research on written language production than on spoken language production.
Question 4A program called latent semantic analysis (LSA) is designed to
a. identify causal relationships in samples of discourse.
b. analyze newspaper articles to see whether they would make sense to the average reader.
c. translate phonemesas spoken by an adultinto an appropriate written form.
d. determine whether two samples of writing convey similar meaning.
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