Nature of language processing Flashcards
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Serial Processing
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process one thing at a time (more items = more time)
2
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Parallel Processing
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process everything at the same time (all aspects - more items = same amount of time)
3
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Parallel distributed processing (PDP)
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Views the mind as ‘massively parallel’ - simultaneously processing a large amount of information
4
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Modular processing
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processes operate independently
5
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Interactive processing
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processes interact and affect each other
6
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Top-down processing
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influenced by our knowledge, memories, and expectations (you perceive it - you use context, semantic, and syntactic information - language knowledge)
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Bottom-up processing
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based on information from the stimulus (sounds/visual features); sparse information
