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PSYC*3270 Week 12 Flashcards

1
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What is the principal method of human communication?

A

Language

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2
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What are three modes of language?

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  • Auditory (speech)
  • Visual (writing, sign)
  • Somatosensory (gesture, braille, sign)
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3
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What are two things that effect readability?

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  • Letter order
  • Context
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4
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Where in the word did jumbled letters most effect readability?

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The beginning

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5
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Where in the word did jumbled letters effect readability the least?

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The middle

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6
Q

Which three of the four lobes are primarily involved in language?

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  • Temporal
  • Occipital
  • Parietal
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7
Q

Is Broca’s area involved in speech production or comprehension?

A

Production

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8
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Is Wernike’s area involved in speech production or comprehension?

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Comprehension

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9
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What is the left perisylvian language network crucial for?

A

Deriving meaning from language

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10
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Which hemisphere plays the larger role in language?

A

The left hemisphere

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11
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What is the right temporal sulcus said to be involved in?

A

Prosody

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12
Q

What is aphasia?

A

A deficit in language comprehension or production

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13
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What is anomia?

A

Difficulty finding words

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14
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What is dysarthria?

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Difficulty controlling the muscles used in speech, resulting in poor speech articulation

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15
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What is apraxia?

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Impairment of motor planning and programming of speech articulation

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16
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The integration of spoken language involves what two regions?

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  • Broca’s area
  • Wernicke’s area
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17
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In which lobe is Broca’s area located?

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The frontal lobe

18
Q

In which lobe is Wernicke’s area located?

A

The temporal lobe

19
Q

Does damage to Broca’s area cause receptive or expressive aphasia?

A

Expressive

20
Q

Does damage to Wernicke’s area cause receptive or expressive aphasia?

A

Receptive

21
Q

Do individuals with expressive or receptive aphasia struggle to produce language?

A

Expressive

22
Q

Do individuals with expressive or receptive aphasia produce “word salads”?

A

Receptive

23
Q

Do individuals with expressive or receptive aphasia struggle to understand language?

A

Receptive

24
Q

When speaking a written word, what is the neural pathway?

A
  • Visual cortex
  • Wernicke’s area
  • Broca’s area
  • Motor cortex
25
Q

When repeating a heard word, what is the neural pathway?

A
  • Auditory cortex
  • Wernicke’s area
  • Broca’s area
  • Motor cortex
26
Q

What term refers to the mental storage of semantic, syntactic, and other patterns of words?

A

The mental lexicon

27
Q

What is the phonological form of a word?

A

The sound-based form of a word in spoken language

28
Q

What is the orthographic form of a word?

A

The vision-based form of a word in written language

29
Q

What is a morpheme?

A

The smallest unit of meaning being represented

30
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What is a phoneme?

A

The smallest unit of sound that carries meaning

31
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What is a grapheme?

A

The smallest unit of witting that makes a difference to meaning

32
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What are the three general functions of the mental lexicon?

A
  • Lexical access
  • Lexical selection
  • Lexical integration
33
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What is lexical access?

A

Process by which perceptual inputs activate information about a word in the metal lexicon

34
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What is lexical selection?

A

Process by which the representation of the activated word that best matches the sensory input is selected

35
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What is lexical integration?

A

Process by which words are integrated to create a whole message

36
Q

According to Peter Hagard, what are the three functional components of language comprehension?

A
  • Memory
  • Unification
  • Control
37
Q

What term refers to the integration of lexically retrieved phonological, semantic, and syntactic information into a unified whole?

A

Unification

38
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Can unification be both sequential and parallel?

A

Yes

39
Q

What is coarticulation?

A

The articulation of two or more speech sounds together, where one influences the other

40
Q

T or F: Sign languages are natural, full-fledged languages.

A

True

41
Q

With the visual-manual modality of language (sign), speech production activates the superior parietal lobule, the supramarginal gyrus, and what other brain structure?

A

The cerebellum

42
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With the visual-manual modality of language (sign), speech comprehension activates the superior parietal lobule, the supramarginal gyrus, and what other brain structure?

A

The occipital lobe

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