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Cognitive Psyc Ch 12
pt 4 of review for exam 3 (ch9-12)
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
11/16/2011

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___ is the study of psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language
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psycholinguistics
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psycholinguistics is a combinations of the study of ___ and ____
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mental processes and the study of language and language stuctures
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___ is defined as the sum of knowledge that someone has about the structure of his/her language
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grammar
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____ = unconscious feeling of if language feels "right" or "wrong'
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gramatical knowledge
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5 levels of language representations include:
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discourse, syntax, words, morphemes,and phonemes
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this level of language representation tells us the meaning of a sentence
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discourse
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level of language representation: ______ = a coherent group of sentences that includes meaning of sentences beyond individual words; implicit qualities and/or additional info not explicitly said in a sentence
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discourse
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level of language representation: ____ = generates inferences - there is implicit info in the sentence.
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discourse
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level of language representation :___ explains how we can read the sentence "the chef burned the noodles" and infer that the chef is incompetent
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discourse
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level of language representation: ___ = relies on short term/working and/or long term memory to make inferences
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discourse
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level of language representation: ___ = the gramatical arrangement of words into a sentence or phrase that specifies the relationship between types of words in a sentence
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syntax
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syntax represents ______
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sentence structure
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level of language representation: ___ = enables us to construct and understand novel sentences by connecting words in an infinite # of phrases and phrases in an infinite # of sentences
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syntax
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syntax impairment is because of
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broca's aphasia / nonfluent/ agramatical
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the following symptoms describe _____
- telegraphic speech; cannot pick up on relationships between words while still knowing what the words by themselves mean, difficulty with complex syntactic sentences
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broca's aphasia
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difficulty in relating discourse and syntactic levels of language representation is a sign of impairment in the____
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syntax
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aphasia has to do with ____ and apraxia has to do with ____
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cognition; movement
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level of language representation: ___= made up of morphemes
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words
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level of language representation: ___ = smallest unit of meaning in language
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morphemes
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level of language representation: ___ = make up words
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morphemes
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level of language representation: ____ = made up of phenomes
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morphemes
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2 types of morphemes
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content and function
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the, and, then are examples of ___
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function words
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anything that gives you more information about the word like a tense or plurality: ending in -ed or -ing or -s
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morphemes
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____ morphemes convey meaning but do not indicate anything about structure of sentence
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content morphemes
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____ morphemes convey little meaning but contain info about syntactic structure of sentence
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function morphemes
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fluent/wernicke's aphasia is due to damage to the ____
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left parietal temporal lobe and often underlying white matter
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the following are symptoms are those of ____:
fluent but meaningless speech, speech is typically grammatical phrases have noun, verbs in correct places, generation and comprehension of content morphemes is impaired
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Wernicke's aphasia
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impairment at word and morpheme levels of language representations is indicative of ____
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fluent/ wernicke's aphasia
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level of language representation: ___ = the smallest distinguishable units of speech sound that make up the morphemes
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phonemes
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spelling is not a precise enough system for representing speech sounds because:
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the same letters could make different sounds in different languages and there are always exceptions to the rule, even in the same language
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in the _____ speech sounds of all languages can be represented, independent of how they are spelled in any word or writing system
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phonetic alphabet
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___ is the entire set of mental representations of words
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lexicon
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"mental dictionary"
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lexicon
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___ includes word meanings, how and when words are used, and networks between words
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lexicon
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_____ explains relations between different types of language processes and different levels of language representations
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triangle model of lexicon
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in the triangle model of lexicons:
___ language relates spelling to speech sound and spelling to meaning
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reading language
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in the triangle model of lexicons:
____language relates speech sound to meaning
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perceiving spoken language
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in the triangle model of lexicons:
Meaning of language relates ______
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meaning to speech sound or spelling - especially when producing language
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in the triangle model of lexicons:
mapping occurs between ____
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between one level of language representation to another (discourse, morphemes, phenomes)
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the following are examples of ____:
Sound
Word meaning/spelling vs pronunciation
Phrase meaning
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ambiguity
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processes contribute to resolution of most language ambiguities
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bottom-up and top-down
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articulation and coarticulation are involved in ____
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speech perception
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___ is the production of speech sounds
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articulation
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___ is when phonemes sound differently based on surrounding phonemes
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coarticulation
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speech perception relies on what?
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bottom-up and top-down processing
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when you see a mouth moving but the movements don't match the sound you hear ( like in old kung-fu movies)
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McGurk Effect
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knowledge about phonemes is not helpful when____
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dealing with a foreign language
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the phoneme restoration effect has to do with what?
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the context of speech
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Integration of bottom up and top down processes occurs ____
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unconsciously
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___ processing considers “intact” phonemes & context
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top-down
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___ processing involves activating a cohort and evidence of the cohort
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bottom-up
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____ is the number of possible words
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cohort
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the ___ effect says We are faster to recognize words that have few “neighbors” than words that have a lot of “neighbors”
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neighborhood density
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in reading there are 2 routes to meaning:
___ > meaning & ____> _____> meaning
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written word > meaning & written word > sound > meaning
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_____ effect happens when letter are more easily recognized in the context of a word than alone or after processing a sentence
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word superiority effect
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_____ effect demonstrates the importance of interaction between top down and bottom up processing
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word superiority effect
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(reading and the brain)
the ___ system has to do with spelling> meaning
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occipito-temporal
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reading adn the brain
___ system has to do with spelling> phonology > meaning
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temporo-parietal system
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a ___ is when the eyes pause on individual words or pairs of words. these fixations last .25-.5 second. readers fixate on an average of %68 of words (content 83% and function 38%)
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saccades
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damage to the ____ area of the brain impairs certain category word knowledge (perceptual and functional aspects of objects
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damage to left or bilateral temporal lobe
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what shape or color is a banana? is an example of a ___ aspect
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perceptual
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what can you do with a banana? is an example of a ____ aspect
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functional aspect
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sentence comprehension relies on ____ and ___
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word meaning and syntax
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a garden path sentence has ___ ambiguities
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structural
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a ____ happens when word selection and sentence structuring occur at the same time
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freudian slip or word-order error
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the tip-of -the -tongue phenomenon is a ___ error (trouble translating words into sounds)
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phonological error
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___ = speaking/writing
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articulation
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2 important factors if bilingualism:
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age of language acquisition and the amount of exposure
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in comparrison (bilingual or monolingual) children have smaller vocabulary, slower learning or syntax, and more frequent tip of the tongue
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bilingual
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___ says each language is represented by a single system
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single system theory
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___ says each language is represented by an independent system
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dual system theory
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broca's area deals with language ____
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production
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wernicke's area deals with language ___
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comprehansion
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