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Exam 1 Review

Terms

undefined, object
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Digits
Easiest to remember
Surface structure
Structure of a sentence
Free vs Bound Morpheme
Love vs ly in lovely
Later NSL cohorts
Used a discrete system to indicate path and movement of a ball rolling.
Information processing theory
Likens the mind to a computer
Nicauragan Sign Language
Cohort 1: Spatial modulation inconsistant. Cohort 2: consistant
First graders taking stroop test
Look no different in experimental and control group
Central Executive
A system for allocating our limited resources
Introspection
Indirect measure of the mind does not utilize this.
Nativist Hypothesis
Language is part of our genetic inheritance.
Working Memory vs Short-Term Memory
Working memory includes attention
Pigin Langauge
Crude, created on need
Phonological Similarity
Most difficult. Example man, cap, can, map, mad.
Letter naming
One of the best predictors of readin success
Tacit Knowledge
Implicit knowledge (ex. "qwirt" could not be a word)
Miller's Magical Number
7 +/- 2
Rival-model technique
2 humans demonstrate to an animal
Combinational Pairing
"It is raining deliberatley" illistrates this.
Babbling
Deaf babies and hearing babies do this
Procedural Memory
Knowledge of how to tie your shoes. Implicit/tacit knowledge.
Descriptive Adequacy
Specify what utterances are acceptable and related to each other.
Implicit Memory
Enhancement of memory without awareness of effort
Span 7 +/- 2
Only limited to auditory representation
Visual-spatial sketch pad
Use during the mental rotation task
Spreading Activation
More likely to say sparrow after hearing bird than penguin.
Modules
Are not knowledge-driven
Nim did not understand what?
syntax
Experimental vs Correlational Designs
Difference is random assignment to groups
Connectionism
Likens the mind to neuronal activity in the brain
Attention
Deliberately transferring from sensory to short-tern memory
Alex
Gray parrot
Deep structure
Meaning of the sentence
Sensory Memory
Measures how much we can perceive in an instance
Phonological Loop
Tied up by the articulatory suppression task
Stroop effect
Meaning of words does not give rise to conscious awareness.
Bees display
Displacement

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