A journalist reads a study involving a verbal learning task and ...

[lilldybug07]

A journalist reads a study involving a verbal learning task and remarks, Well I guess it's sort of interesting, but who cares how long it takes to learn a bunch of nonsense words.
 
  The journalist's complaint points out which of the following?
   a) Lack of ecological validit
 b) Lack of scientific rigor
 c) Lack of internal consistency
 d) Lack of intuitive simplicity

Question 2

Many birds can be taught to repeat phrases. Which of Hockett's linguistic universals explains why the birds are not truly using language in this situation?
 
  a) Productivit
 b) Displacement
 c) Interchangeability
 d) Duality

[chem1s3]

Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

A

[lilldybug07]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[marict]

Gracias!