A young child tells his grandmother that "he goed to town." The child's application of the normal past tense to the irregular verb "to go" illustrates that the child is attempting to use
a. transformation rules.
b. the semantic differential.
c. disjunctive concepts.
d. a morpheme shift.
ANSWER: a
You might also like to view...
What do the corpus callosum and anterior commissure have in common? a. They both produce CSF
b. They both connect the two hemispheres. c. They are made up of gray matter. d. They each have six laminae.
Almost all research on self-presentation has been
a. conducted on first meetings between strangers. b. limited to reality situations. c. based on long-term situations. d. comparing first impressions and long-term relationships.
Compare and contrast the "third degree," "the father confessor," and the "good cop/bad cop" approaches to police investigations.
What will be an ideal response?
Severing the cerebral commissures:
a. Leaves a person with limited language skills b. Leaves a person unable to locate objects in space c. Has shown that for most people language is located in the left hemisphere while spatial skills are located in the right hemisphere d. Has shown that for most people language and spatial skills are located in the left hemisphere