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- “Language Acquisition Device”
- Critical periods
- Learning of language is to fast to be explained by conditioning.
- Universal grammar
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| How did Chomsky explain language development? |
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- —We associate things with words.
- —We ask for what we want, we get reinforced.
- — Possibly we learn by imitation as well.
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| How did Skinner explain language devlopment |
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| relating to the meaning in language |
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Rhythmic or intonational aspect of language
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| the way in which words are put together |
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| ________ gets harder with age |
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studies of aphasic patients helped to localize the brain area important to language functions.
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showed that the faculty for comprehension of language lies in the left temporal lobe.
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| they waggle or dance, this communications the distance and direction of food source |
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| how do dolphins communicate |
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| how do monkey's communicate |
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- vocaubaulary
- verbal reasoning
- general knowledge
- spatial organizaton
- nonverabl reasoning
- working memory
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| what skills do intelligence tests test? |
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- creativity
- emotional intelliegence
- memory
- abilty orient oneself in space
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| what skills do intelligence tests not test |
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| developed intelligence test questions to predict children's progress in the Paris school systems |
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| an intelligence test used in the U.S. to detremine intelligence |
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intelligence quotient
IQ= Mental Age/chronoglocial ageX 100
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| derivation of the term iq |
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| most comonly used to measure intelligence |
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| wechsler intelligence adult scales, contains verbal and performance subtests |
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| symmetrical bell-shgaped curve that describes the distribuation of many physical and psychological attributes. most scores fall near the average |
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| the extent to which a test yields consistant results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, or on retesting |
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| defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a presented group |
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| the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to |
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- have IQ<70
- shows deficts in adaptive behavior behavior skills
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| Critera for diagnosis of mental retardation |
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- women tend to out perform men on verbal fluency tasks
- men tend to out perform women on spatical tasks
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| gender differences in intelligence test scores |
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Research suggests that Americans of European descent, as a group, outperform Americans of West African descent, as a group, on intelligence measures.
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| Intelligence test scores are improving with a full standard deviation of improvement observed in the latter half of the 20th century |
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| a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned |
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| suggest that we are motivated to perform behaviors that reduce drives |
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| we are pulled to or away from positive or negative stimuli |
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| people become preoccupied by the thought of food and atteps to get it |
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| monitors the change in blodo chemistry to tirgger hunger or satiety |
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| trigegrs the feelings of hungery |
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| ventromedial hypothalamus |
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| triggers feelings of satiety |
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| helps absorb gluclose from the blood stream |
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| secreted by the lateral hypothalamus |
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| secred by the stomach, tiggers hunger |
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| screted by fat cells, works to reduce the desire for food |
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| secreted by the small intestine and colon. triggers a feeling of satiety |
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| rate of energy expended when the body is at rest |
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| Set Point/ Settling Point |
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- Animals seem to have a predisposition to maintain stable weight.
- Decreases in caloric intake typically result in decreases in energy expenditure.
- Increases in caloric intake typically result in increases in energy expenditure.
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- Genetic predisposition to obesity is shown by twin/adoption studies
- Genes contribute about 50% to the likelihood of obesity
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- Consuming high calorie foods
- Sedentary lifestyle
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- A correlation of .74 between body weights of identical twins raised apart.
- A correlation of .32 between body weights of fraternal twins.
- Almost NO correlation between adoptive siblings living together.
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| the refusal to maintain normal body weight, people has a BMI < 17.5 |
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| our enduring attraction to members of our own sex or the other sex |
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| we experience an emotion because of our awareness of our psychological response, pupils are dialated, blood pressure rises |
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| suggests that emotions and physiological responses occur simutansouly but independtely |
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| schacter & Singer's two-factor theory |
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for an emotional response to occur the individual must be:
- physically aroused
- cognitivley label the arousal
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| the tendency of one person's emotion to affect how other people around them feel |
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| forms primary roles in the formation and storage of memories |
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| the releasing of aggressive anger |
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| involves physical, cognitive and emotional responses |
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