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Week 5a HB

NPTEL Human Behavior Solution 2023

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Assignment Number 5.

1: Detailed Solution

Question 1 - What is the primary means of communicating thought?


A. concepts
B. propositions
C. categories
D. language
Answer: D
Detailed Explanation: Language is the primary means through which humans communicate their thoughts. It
can encompass spoken, written, and signed forms of communication.
Question 2 - Suffixes and prefixes are types of
A. phonemes
B. morphemes
C. sound units
D. words
Answer: B
Detailed Explanation: Suffixes and prefixes are types of morphemes, which are the smallest units of meaning
in a language. Prefixes are added to the beginning of a word, while suffixes are added to the end, both altering
the meaning or grammatical function.
Question 3 - A child calls all toys "ball." This illustrates
A. an error in grammar.
B. telegraphic speech
C. overextension of a word
D. a morphemic displacement.
Answer: C
Detailed Explanation: Overextension refers to when a child uses a word in a broader context than its
conventional meaning.
Question 4 - Many experts agree that all _____ have productivity, duality of structure, and rules about
the meaning of word order.
A. animal communication systems
B. non-human languages
C. human languages
D. primate languages
Answer: C
Detailed Explanation: Human languages have the ability to generate new expressions, have both a surface and
a deep structure and a set of rules that other animal communication systems lack.
Question 5 - In understanding a sentence, we often move from
A. speech sounds to propositions to morphemes
B. phonemes to sentence units to propositions
C. words to sentences to phrases
D. propositions to sentence units to speech sounds.
Answer: B
Detailed Explanation: In understanding a sentence, we move from recognizing sounds, to identifying words
and their arrangement, and finally understanding the message meaning.
Question 6 - One characteristic of all human societies is
A. language.
B. linguistic analysis
C. propositions
D. automatic acquisition of language.
Answer: D
Detailed Explanation: The process of language acquisition that involves exposure to linguistic input from
caregivers and the surrounding environment is automatic and occurs without conscious effort on the part of the
child. This phenomenon occurs regardless of cultural, linguistic, or geographical differences.
Question 7 - The ability to create an infinite number of sentences from a finite set of words and rules
refers to the language property of
A. structure
B. productivity
C. syntax
D. communication
Answer: B
Detailed Explanation: Productivity is the language property that allows speakers to generate an infinite
number of novel sentences using a finite set of words and rules.
Question 8 - Thought is communicated by way of
A. logical reasoning
B. language
C. mental images
D. All of the above are true
Answer: B
Detailed Explanation: Language is the primary means through which humans communicate their thoughts. It
encompasses spoken, written, and signed forms of communication.
Question 9 - When phonemes are combined properly, they form
A. words
B. thought units
C. sentences
D. propositions
Answer: A
Detailed Explanation: Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in a language. When combined properly
according to the phonological rules of a language, they form words. Words are the basic units of language that
carry meaning and can be combined to create sentences.
Question 10 - In the sentence "The frightened cat jumped onto the table," "the frightened cat" is the
_____, and "jumped onto the table" is the _____ phrase.
A. noun phrase; verb
B. proposition; noun
C. verb phrase; noun
D. noun phrase; noun
Answer: A
Detailed Explanation: The frightened cat" is the group of words describing the noun, 'cat', and "jumped onto
the table" is a verb phrase describing the action.

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