presentations

Question 1

bilingual effects on cognitive and linguistic development

Answer 1

research question:
- looking at if the similarity between a bilingual child’s two languages, cultural background, and school language affect their cognitive development and linguistic abilities

results:
- spanish-english bilingual children scored higher on wug test than all other groups
- bilingual children had faster reaction times in executive functioning than monolingual children

implications:
- bilingualism enhances executive functioning skills and task switching
- similarity between languages can help facilitate better grammar abilities

Question 2

category learning strategies on recognition memory

Answer 2

focus:
- explore how different ways of learning categories affect memory performance by comparing two groups, one will have instructions and the other will learn with no instructions

hypothesis:
- participants that are given instructions and feedback will perform better on memory tasks and will recognize categories faster than those who just observe

discussion:
- both instruction and practice learning are equally effective in how well participants learn the category and recognize items from it
- learning through instruction and practice may make category information easier or faster to retrieve
- category learning enhances recognition memory

Question 3

musical and verbal memory in alzheimers (LTM vs STM)

Answer 3

purpose: to compare how people with alzheimers recall music and verbal info to see if melodies are better remembered than words

hypothesis: musical LTM might be better preserved

findings: musical and verbal memory is impaired in individuals with alzheimers
- short term memory deficit does not result in a long term deficit