Language And Reading 1

Question 1

A pattern conveys meaning because

Answer 1

In learning a language, a person learns to associate visual patterns with meanings

Question 2

Mental lexicon

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A store of knowledge about the words of the language

Question 3

Eye tracking

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Measure how long people actually spend looking at a word when reading

Question 4

Lexical decision task

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Measure how long people take to indicate that a string of letters is or isn’t a word

Question 5

Naming task

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Measure how long people taking to start saying a word

Question 6

Word frequency

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Commonly used words are recognized more easily than infrequent words

Question 7

Word frequency

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Commonly used words are recognized more easily than infrequent words

Question 8

Word frequency

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Commonly used words are recognized more easily than infrequent words

Question 9

Predictability

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Predictable words are recognized more easily than those in neutral or misleading contexts

Question 10

Predictability

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Predictable words are recognized more easily than those in neutral or misleading contexts

Question 11

Neighborhood effects

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Word identification can be speeded when similar words exist in the language

Question 12

Neighborhood effects

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word identification can be speeded when similar words exist in the language

Question 13

High frequency words take

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A shorter time to recognize

Question 14

Low frequency words take

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Longer to recognize

Question 15

Neighborhood effects

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Word identification can be speeded when similar words exist in the language

Question 16

Orthographic neighborhood

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The number of words that can be formed by changing one letter of a word while maintaining letter position

Question 17

Phonological neighborhood

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The number of words that can be formed by changing one phoneme of a word

Question 18

Logogens

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Thought of as word detectors

Question 19

Each logogen has an ____ ____ which needs to be met before it fires

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Activation threshold

Question 20

Word superiority effect

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It is easier to identify a letter in the context of a word than in isolation

Question 21

Interactive activation model

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Word detectors -> letter detectors -> feature detectors -> stimulus

Question 22

Orthography

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Info about the spelling of words

Question 23

Phonology

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Info about the sounds of words

Question 24

High frequency words have a ____ threshold for firing and low frequency words take longer

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Lower

Question 25

Interactive activation model types of connections

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Excitatory and inhibitory

Question 26

These connections in the interactive activation model run in….

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Both directions

Question 27

Transposed letter priming

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Test of how a word is processed when the word is switched

Question 28

Priming

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Exposure to something may influence a response to something else subsequently

Question 29

Dual route model

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Connects the visually presented word to the whole word’s mental representation

Question 30

The dual route model is used for

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High frequency or familiar words

Question 31

Phonological route

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Accesses the mental representations of words by using grapheme to phoneme conversation rules

Question 32

Dual route model and dyslexia

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Problems with each route leads to formation or different patterns of dyslexia

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Phonological dyslexia

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Difficulty with reading non words

Question 34

Surface dyslexia

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Difficulty reading irregular words and assumes a selective deficit in the lexical route