Language is a tool of communication. The symbol “Highway Closed” on a highway is used for（ ）.

Gestalt means （ ） in English.

The（ ）saw the emergence of a new psychological school called Gestalt psychology.

According to（ ）, the conscious mind is only a very small part of the whole mind the rest remains unconscious.

Gestalt psychology found that people perceived （）.

Who is not the founder of Gestalt psychology? （ ）

Quite a number of schools of psychology have emerged since （ ） when the German scientist Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig opened a laboratory of experiental psychology, which announced the official birth of psychology.

The establishment of a laboratory of  psychology announced the official birth of the science.

（ ） is the process by which we modify what we already know to take into account new information.

Who applied the theory of conditioning to the way humans acquire language in a book entitled “Verbal Behavior”? （ ）

According to Skinner，a renowned behaviorist psychologist， was much more effective than punishment in a teaching situation.

Traditional linguists believed that the written form of language was （ ） the spoken form.

In 500 B.C. the Greeks began to seriously study language in the realm of （）

The following statements are about the facts presented in the first chapter of the book, please indicate in the brackets whether they are true (T) or false(F). 

In the 5th century, the controversy between the naturalist and the conventionalists in Greece was on the regularities of language.

Traditional linguists gave priority to the written form and took （ ） as their starting point.

The following statements are about the facts presented in the first chapter of the book. Please indicate in the brackets after the statements whether they are true (T) or false (F). 

​The Naturalists and the Conventionalists disagreed with each other in the 5th century. The former argued that forms of words reflected the nature of objects, while the latter held that there was no logic between form and meaning of words.

Filling Blanks: You are to fill each blank with ONE appropriate word.

In their study of language, the traditional linguists gave priority to the  form and took words as their starting point.

（ ） wrote a book of Greek Grammar.

Dianysius Thrax classified all the words of the Greek language into （ ） parts of speech.

In the（ ）century B.C., the ancient Greeks began to make a serious study of language in the realm of philosophy.