Module 36 - Thinking and Language Flashcards
Babbling stage
Beginning around 4 months, the stage of speech development in which an infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language
One-word stage
The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words
Two-word stage
Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in two-word statements
Telegraphic speech
Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs
Aphasia
Impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca’s area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke’s area (impairing understanding)
Broca’s area
Helps control speech
Wernicke’s area
Involved in language comprehension and expression
Linguistic determination
Language controls the way we think and interpret the world around us
Linguistic influence
The idea that language affects thought
