Which of the following is not one of Hockett's design features of language?
a. Semanticity.
b. Displacement.
c. Productivity.
d. Synchronicity.
D
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A child says "doggy!" This is an example of:
a. a morpheme. c. telegraphic speech. b. a holophrase. d. mean length of utterance.
Which of the following are least likely to say that they would turn to their parents for help?
A) Only children B) Middle-born children C) Last-born children D) First-born children
Pete has difficulty getting along with others and would like to create a computer program that will play checkers with him instead. Pete has limited experience playing checkers and does not want to include information from anyone else when creating his program. What is problematic about Pete's plan?
A. Computer programs cannot make decisions. B. Such a program would require input from real people who play checkers. C. The computer program will automatically be better than Pete at checkers. D. Other people are needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the checker program.
Myra wants to ask her husband to buy her a diamond necklace. Which of the following strategies used by Myra reflects the lowball technique?
A. Myra cooks a tasty dinner for her husband, and she shows him a picture of the necklace she likes. B. Myra gets her husband to agree to buy her a diamond ring, and at the jewelry store, she informs him that she wants a diamond necklace. C. Myra lets her husband know how much she loves him and tells him that if he loved her as much, he would gift her anything she wants. D. Myra takes her husband out to dinner and asks if he would gift her a diamond necklace.