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Ch. 5- Cognition and Language Flashcards

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information processing model

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brain = computer, takes input to create output.

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what psychologist is cognitive development associated with?

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Jean Piaget

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what are Piaget’s four cognitive developmental stages?

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sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational

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behaviorism approach to cognition

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focusing on measurable external outcomes with no attempt to directly determine internal states

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what are some characteristics of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development?

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learning language, no object permanence, circular reactions, stranger anxiety

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what age range is included in the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development?

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birth - 2 yrs

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what are some characteristics of the preoperational stage of cognitive development?

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symbolic thought, egocentricism, centration, lack of conservation

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what age range is included in the preoperational stage of cognitive development?

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2-7 yrs

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what are some characteristics of the concrete operational stage of cognitive development?

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understanding of conservation, logical reasoning

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what age range is included in the concrete operational stage of cognitive development?

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7-11 yrs

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what are some characteristics of the formal operational stage of cognitive development?

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abstract logic, handle hypotheticals, abstract reasoning

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what age range is included in the formal operational stage of cognitive development?

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11- adulthood

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schema

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cognitive framework that organizes information about things that one perceives in the outside world. as you acquire more information, you can assimilate or accommodate your schema.

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assimmilating a schema

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preserving the old schema

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accommodating a schema

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expanding the schema to include a new piece of information

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fluid vs. crystallized intelligence

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fluid = problem-solving skills that can be applied to new situations
crystallized = using built-up knowledge and skills to solve problems

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does cognitive performance improve or decline with age?

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declines. severe cognitive decline = dementia

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what causes dementia?

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often Alzheimer’s, but many other options

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what causes Down’s syndrome?

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trisomy 21

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what causes fetal alcohol syndrome?

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prenatal alcohol exposure

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trial-and-error problem solving

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trying different options to see what works. best if you have time to kill.

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algorithm problem solving

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applying a set of steps to the problem, no underlying concept of how the thing works

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deductive reasoning problem solving

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top-down: starting with a specific thing and finding things to support it. depends a lot on validity of general principles.

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inductive reasoning problem solving

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bottom-up: starting with successive observations about a thing help identify general principles. vulnerable to generalizations.

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analogy problem solving

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this problem is similar to another problem I’ve seen before… I bet I can solve it the same way.

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intuition problem solving

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a gut feeling of how to do this thing. very possibly you have an analogy you’re using that you’re not consciously aware of.

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insight problem solving

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suddenly getting a moment of inspiration randomly?

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mental set

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our framework for conceptualizing a problem and trying to solve it

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fixation

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getting stuck in our old way of thinking about things

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functional fixedness

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tendency to see objects as only having a certain function (usually, what they were designed for). ie. the candle experiment, where a box of thumbtacks can also be a candleholder if you tack it to something.

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belief perserverance

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people’s tendency to maintain their belief even when there is contradictory evidence.

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overconfidence

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being too sure of yourself. you think there’s not a problem in the first place, but when you do see a problem, you jump in with a fast and sometimes unhelpful solution.

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cognitive biases

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systematic, generally subconscious patterns of thought that skew reasoning

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confirmation bias

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you disregard evidence that doesn’t fit your beliefs, interpret ambiguous data in a way that is favorable to you, and selectively recall only evidence that supports your side.

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what are biases and heuristics used for?

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to quickly make judgements, heuristics are used to problem-solve.

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hindsight bias

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looking back, you think things were a lot more predictable than they actually were in the moment.

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causation bias

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we infer cause-and-effect between two events in close proximity or that we already think are related, when in reality, it is not like that at all.

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representativeness heuristic

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we make decisions based on what we think is the prototypical example of a category. happens when we need to decide how probable something is

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availability heuristic

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we think that things that immediately come to mind first are the more likely options (med students thinking that any physical issues they experience is a rare disease)

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what was Spearman’s theory of intelligence?

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everyone has a general intelligence factor (g factor) that’s the baseline intelligence. you also have specialized intelligence (s factor)

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is intelligence heritable?

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to some degree. the g factor has a heritability range between 50-80% so it is possible.

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Galton’s idea of hereditary genius

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basis for the eugenics movement- sterilization of people with low intelligence.

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who developed the theory of IQ?

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Alfred Binet, because the French government told him to

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what does IQ measure?

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a child’s “mental age” relative to their chronological age

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what type of distribution curve does IQ have?

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normal bell curve.

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Flynn effect

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IQ scores readily increasing in developed countries and peaking in 1990s.

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Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences

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8 subsets of intelligence: musical, visual/spatial, verbal/linguistic, logic/math, body/kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic.

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who popularized the idea of emotional intelligence?

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Daniel Goleman

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emotional intelligence

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recognizing one’s own emotions, other’s emotions, and emotional self-regulation.

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what are the 6 levels of language from lowest to highest?

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phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

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phonetics

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direct sounds we produce. intonation and sounds that don’t themselves affect meaning

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phonology

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sound structures affecting meaning, looking at the units of sound that affect the meaning of a word. ie. dip vs. deep.

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morphology

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word formation and construction, ie. eat vs. ate

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syntax

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phrases and sentences

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semantics

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literal meaning, on the level of words or sentences

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pragmatics

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real-world language use, nonliteral meaning

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how does sign language compare to other linguistic systems?

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sign language shares all components of a spoken language, are full linguistic systems as well.

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learning theory of language

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all language is learned behavior (environmental stimuli, conditioning)

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nativist theory of language

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humans have an innate, hardwired capacity to learn language

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interactionist theory of language

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emphasizes interactions with the environment, but there is an inborn capacity for language.

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who was the pioneer of the learning theory of language?

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Skinner

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who was the pioneer of the nativist theory of language?

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Noam Chomsky

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generative linguistics

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how we form abstract ideas into correct sentence frameworks

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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

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aka. linguistic relativity- the language we speak shapes our cognition

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linguistic determinism

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a strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; language dictates thought.

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Wernicke’s area

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in the superior temporal lobe of the dominant hemisphere of the brain (usually left)

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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aphasia in which the person can still generate nonsense speech, but cannot comprehend speech. also known as fluent aphasia or receptive aphasia.

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aphasia

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blanket term for having an impaired ability to communicate

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Broca’s area

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in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere of the brain (usually left)

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Broca’s aphasia

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aphasia in which the person can comprehend speech but has extreme difficulty producing speech in return. also known as non-fluent aphasia.

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how does information move between Wernicke’s area and Broca’s area?

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through the arculate fasciculus

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conduction aphasia

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damage to the structure linking Wernicke’s and Broca’s areas (arculate fasciculus) which causes extreme difficulty for repeating words

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regions in the temporal lobe handle language-processing functions, including …?

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the auditory cortices

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