Language

Question 1

what Hemisphere of the brain is language located 90 percent of the time ?

Answer 1

left

Question 2

word for disorder involving language

Answer 2

aphasia

Question 3

aphasia that render people unable to speak

Answer 3

Broca’s Aphasia

Question 4

aphasia that renders people unable to comprehend speech

Answer 4

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Question 5

What is Global Aphasia

Answer 5

Both Wernicke’s area and Broca’s area are damaged

Question 6

what is the name for the bundle of nerves that connects Wernicke’s area to Broca’s area

Answer 6

Arcuate Fasciculus

Question 7

what aphasia is the result of damage to Arcuate Fasciculus

Answer 7

Conducting aphasia

aka Associative aphasia

Question 8

inability to write

Answer 8

agraphia

g for gel pen

Question 9

inability to name objects or in retrieving words

Answer 9

anomia

you think your mother has this

Question 10

Thick band of nerve fibers that connect Left and Right hemispheres of the brain

Answer 10

corpus callosum

Question 11

what does the brain has contralateral organization mean?

Answer 11

information gets processed in opposite hemisphere from the side of the body it was perceived

Question 12

Thoughts dictate language completely

Human Cognition shapes language

Answer 12

universalism

Question 13

what is another name for Weak Linguistic Determinism?

Answer 13

Relativism

Question 14

what is another name for Strong Linguistic Determinism

Answer 14

Sapir-Whorfian hypothesis

Question 15

Language determines thought completely

Answer 15

Sapir- Whorfain hypothesis

Question 16

Language influence thought

Answer 16

Relativism

Question 17

Theory of Language development that states that children are born with the ability to learn language

Answer 17

Nativist perspective

Question 18

Theory of Language development that states children arn’t born with anything, they only acquire language through operant conditioning

Answer 18

Behaviorist theory

Question 19

what is the timeline for language acquistiion?

Answer 19

9-12 months = babbling
12-18 months=about one word per month
18-20 month= explosion of language 
2-3 years= 3 or more word sentences 
5+years= language rules mostly mastered

Question 20

Lexicon

Answer 20

a set of vocabulary items

Question 21

Lexical access

Answer 21

refers to identifying a word and connecting it to its meaning

Question 22

Phonology

Answer 22

actual sound of language

Question 23

Semantics

Answer 23

association of meaning with word

Question 24

syntax

Answer 24

how words are put together in sentences

Question 25

Pragmatics

Answer 25

Dependences of language on context and pre-existing knowledge.