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General Flashcards

1
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What is phonological awareness?

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Hearing sounds properly
Decoding sounds properly to constituents
Understanding relationships between sounds

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What are lexical hermits?

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Words with no close neighbours. Unique spelling/sound rules e.g. Ghost

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What is a pseudohomophone?

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Non-words which sound like real words e.g. Burd

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What is a homophone?

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Same sound, different spelling (e.g. Night/Knight)

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What is a homograph?

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Same spelling but different meaning (e.g. Row)

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Why is spelling and reading hard?

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We have complex grapheme to phoneme relationships

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What is a phoneme?

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A unit of spoken language (think of phone as being to do with sounds)

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What is a grapheme?

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Smallest unit of written language (think of graph as being visual)

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What is a quale? (Pl = qualms)

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Qualia are what ‘being’ is like from the inside

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10
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Which famous psychologist embraced reductionism to the fullest?

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B.F. Skinner

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What is reductionism?

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Everything can be observed and measured (mind is a cognitive machine)

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What is materialism?

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There is only one thing in the universe and that is physical matter

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What does functional mean? (Consciousness)

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Consciousness has a purpose. It is contributing to everything else in the mind and body

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What are emergent properties?

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Interactions between simple units resulting in a more complex entity. The simple units don’t possess that property themselves.

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What does epiphenomenal mean?

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Consciousness happens as a result of physical things happening - but it isn’t meaningfully related to those physical things

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What does it mean to say that consciousness is inessential?

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Consciousness doesn’t have a real job to do

17
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What is negative transfer?

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What someone learns in one situation hinders their performance in another

18
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What is positive transfer?

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What someone learns in one situation has a positive effect in their performance in another situation

19
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What is analogical reasoning?

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A specific type of problem solving

Allows us to approach unfamiliar problems and solve them by bringing to bear what we already know

20
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What is mapping?

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Forming a relationship between something you already know and a novel item on the basis of apparent similarity

21
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What does encoding mean?

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Putting information in
Building an internal representation of an external event/factor/concept
Getting information into your mind

22
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Why is psychology a science?

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We employ the scientific method
We base our ideas on empirical evidence
We test our ideas in experiments

23
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What is Cartesian dualism?

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The idea that things are composed of two fundamentally different components e.g. Body and mind

24
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What does metaphysical mean?

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Non physical matter

Speculation on questions that are unanswerable to scientific observation, analysis or experiment

25
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What is the mind body problem?

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Body is physical and obeys physical laws. The mind is non physical and does not obey physical laws

26
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What is the famous Descartes phrase?

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Cogito Ergo Sum

27
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What does cf mean?

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Confer (Latin) - compare with/bring together

28
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René Descartes (1596-1650) quote?

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“If you would be a real seeker after truth it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

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Karl Popper (1902-1994) quote?

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“Good tests kill flawed theories: we remain alive to guess again”

30
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What is falsification?

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The idea that you get nearer the truth by trying to prove things wrong

31
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What is induction?

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The idea that you find things out by proving them right

32
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What does empirical mean?

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Verifiable with reference to evidence (based upon experience)

33
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What does verifiable mean?

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Testable

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