test Flashcards
what’s genie
was neglected - had slow progress in acquiring words vs syntax (sentences didn’t follow the right order)
Brocs aphasia had problems with what kind of words
can do function words just not smoothly
closed-class words =
function words
adjectives, adverbs =
content words
wernikes aphasia had problems with what kind of words
content words
what is surface structure and deep structure? and who introduced in
who - nam chrompsky
surface - words/language used to represent deep structure
deep - concepts, thoughts, ideas and feelings
what is ambiguity
property of behaviour, behaviour pattern or situation that might be interpreted in more then one way
what’s a paraphrase
expressing meaning of something using different words
what’s syntactic error
mistakes with language - incorrect contraction
what’s semantic error
from disruption to access either to semantics or lexical representations
protoword
prototypical form of a word - go through variation
ga ga
wa wa
wada
water
under extension
dog - only your dog. learnt association between one thing and one word
over extension
dog used for all animals. one word - lots of meaning
holophrase
single word that stands for an entire sentence
descriptive feedback
“good Boy” use something else etc
situation entered talk
child adapts to situation
child entered talk
adapt to Childs level
a social routine
word emerges as part of a social routine
mental representation
a representation of a stimuli that originates in your head rather then due to sensory input - mental rotation study
analogical representation
caputures some of the actual characteristic of what they represent - no actual representation of what to represents
hypothetical representation
relationship between religious knowledge and scientific knowledge
symbolic representation
physical or psychological process to represent an object or any context - don’t resemble what they stand for - means brains more flexible
prepositions
statements that express ideas - context dependent
incubation
form of functional fixdness - time away from a problem
perceptual reasoning
block design, visual puzzles, matrix of reasoning
conformation bias
look at information that supports rather than rejects
mental set
habits and assumptions Brought to problem solving - can hinder problem solving
functional fixdness
stuck on a problem. taking a breaks helps you solve the problem
heuristic
shortcut method to help solve a problem - doesn’t always guarantee a solution
a hypotheis in problem solving
“top down problem solving” - type of problem solving that starts with the answer and works backwards to prove or disprove the problem
sternbergs tliarch theory
3 types of intelligence
- practical, analytic and creative
gardens theory of multiple intelligences
don’t just have an intellectual capacity but they have many types of intelligences
visual cliff
looks at when children can perceive depth. around time they crawl but infants have some perception
longitude study
- repeatedly examine some individuals to detect changes that occur over a period of time
schema
mental representation that enables us to organise our knowledge into categories
assimilation
process by which new information in modified to fit with existing schema