9. Kafli Flashcards
When cognitive psychologists are talking about language and thinking, what term do they use to describe the human ability to create images, ideas, concepts and principles of the world?
Mental representations
Language refers to a system of symbol and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate..?
An infinite number of possible messages and meanings
The scientific study of the psychological aspects of language is..?
Psycholinguistics
According to evolutionists, the creation of divisions of labour and co-operative social systems may have been due to the creation of..?
Language
Humans have a remarkable ability to create mental representations of the world. Having mental representations refers to which kind of abilities?
- Images
- Principles
- Concepts
- Ideas
Which of the following are examples of adaptive functions of language?
- Conscious thinking
- Learning
- Communication
- Social interaction
Langage uses sounds, characters, or some other system of symbols to represent objects, events, feelings, ideas and actions. These words do not directly correspond to the concept the describe. In this sense symbols are..?
Arbitrary
As the social environment became more complex, the development of language made it easier for humans to..?
Adapt to these environmental demands
Evolutionary theorists believe that language evolved as humans adopted more..?
Social lifestyle
The fact that languages have grammar and syntax rules demonstrate that languages..?
Are structured
What four properties are essential to any language?
- Meaning
- Generativity
- Symbols
- Structure
The grammatical rules of all languages..?
Share common functions
The word ‘bunny’ does not look like a real bunny, nor does the spoken word sound like it. Instead the word. is arbitrary. This demonstrates that language is..?
Symbolic
Language allows you to talk to a friend about your hobbies and feelings. Based on the words you use, and how they are organized, your friend will hopefully understand what you mean. This demonstrates that language..?
Conveys meaning
The fact that language is structured is demonstrated by the fact that languages have what rules?
Grammar and syntax
‘I nailed it’. The fact that we do not take this saying literally, demonstrates that we understand the..?
Semantics
The grammatical rules of all languages..?
Share common functions
In the English language we create nonsensical sentences such as, ‘How does the crab sit under my wheel?’ This strange sentence combination and our ability to understand it is due to?
Generativity
The fact that language allows us to communicate about events and objects that are not physically present, demonstrates that language..?
Permits displacement
In using language people are able to form and then transfer..?
Mental representations to the mind of another person
Which research topics do psycholinguists, who study the structure of language, focus on?
- Hierarchical structure
- Surface structure
- Deep structure
The meaning of words and sentences is called?
Semantics
The symbols of language can be combined into an infinite number of possibilities. This property is called..?
Generativity
The smallest unit of meaning in a language is..?
A morpheme
Name a few morphemes:
- Plural s
- Dog
- Pre-
The hierarchical structure of language begins with phonemes and the next level is..?
Morphemes
What are types of discourse, the highest level of the hierarchical structure of language?
- Conversations
- Books
- Paragraphs
Hierarchical structure:
- Phonems
- Morphems
- Words
- Phrases
- Sentence
- Discourse
When sensory information is interpreted in light of existing knowledge, concepts, ideas and expectation, this is called..?
Top-down processing
What term refers to sentences being combined into paragraphs, books, articles, conversations, etc.?
Discourse
Word recognition is a topic of interest in which research field?
Psycholinguistics
The task whereby participants must name the colour of the ink a word is printed in, and where the word can name a different colour to the ink, is known as the..?
Stroop task
What are typical dependent measures in a word recognition task?
Reaction times and error ratings
Analysing the basic element of the visual parts of a sentence and then feeding this information into other cell groups that lead you to perceive these patterns as letters is an example of..?
Bottom-up processing
Which pattern of result is typical for the word frequency effect?
High frequency words are recognised faster that lower frequency words
Psycholinguistics are interested in how words are recognised in both..?
Spoken form and written form
Which normative measure indicates how often a word occurs in any given written or spoken language?
Word frequency
The fact that beginning readers ____ show a stroop effect corroborates the hypothesis that the effect reflects automatic processing.
Do not
Lexical decision:
Participants decide whether a letter string is an actual word or a non-word
Naming task:
Participants have to say aloud a word with which they have been presented
Categorisation task:
Participants determine whether a word is a ‘living thing’ or not
An age-of-acqusition (AoA) effect on word recognition is characterised by faster response times for..?
Early acquired that for later acquired
Who developed one of the earliest models of word recognition?
Forster (1976)
The serial search model of word recognition proposed that words in the access files are stored together on the basis of information about them, such as which are the first few letters in a word. This means for example that the words ‘cake’, ‘can’, ‘cab’ and ‘car’ are stored in the same..?
Bin
In lexical decision tasks, priming effects typically lead to ____ response time for word naming when the word was preceded by a semantically related word than an unrelated word.
Faster
The Stroop paradigm demonstrates than..?
Word recognition is automatic and involuntary
The age at which a word is learned is known as the..?
Age of acquisition
In contrast to serial models on word recognition, the interactive activation and competition model proposes that word recognition is a..?
Parallel or connectionist process
Most cognitive models of word recognition are based on the concept of..?
A mental lexicon
In lexical decision task, participants are faster in naming a word when it has been preceded by a semantically related word than an unrelated word. This is a..?
Priming effect
In Rumelhart and McClelland interactive activation and competition model, there are inhibitory and excitatory links between which levels of word recognition?
- Word level
- Letter level
- Feature level
The interactive activation and competition model is an example of a _____ view on word recognition.
Connectionist
In more recent version of the interactive activation and competition model of word recognition, frequency effects on naming latencies are accounted for by_____?
Varying connection strengths
Colin changes the way in which he speaks when he is teaching his third grade students. Colin knows his vocabulary may be too difficult for them to understand. He modifies his language so that his students can understand him. This is an example of..?
Pragmatics
In the interactive activation and competition (IAC) model of word recognition, connections are described as being..?
Excitatory and Inhibitory
Top-down knowledge of the practical aspects of using language is called?
Pragmatics
Which area of the brain is related to word production?
Broca’s area
Gender studies using functional MRI have shown that in a language task women have..?
Activation in both the left and right hemispheres
Broca’s area is located in..?
The frontal lobe
Wernicke’s area is located in..?
The temporal lobe
What is the importance of language development between 6 and 12 months of age?
Babies discriminate sounds specific to their native tounge
Gender studies have shown that men have greater..?
Left-hemisphere activation during a language task than women
The fact that children learn to master language early in life without formal instruction indicates a..?
Biological basis for language development
What facts suggest a biological basis for language acquisition?
- Children, despite their limited thinking skills, begin to master language early in life without formal instruction
- Despite their differences, all adult languages throughout the world have common underlying structural characteristics
Noam Chomsky’s theory maintains that humans are genetically pre-wired for language at..?
Birth
Which of the following are accepted as reasonable explanations for language acquisition?
Chominsky’s LAD theory
A mother talking to her child in a high-pitched intonation is demonstrating..?
Child-directed speech
The linguist Chomsky proposes an innate biological mechanism that contains the general grammatical rules common to all languages. This is called the..?
Language acquisition device