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Unit 8: Language and Thought Flashcards

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Constructing utterances to suit the audience’s knowledge

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Audience Design

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Information that is shared by people who engage in a conversation

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Common ground

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Group to which a person belongs

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Ingroup

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Words and expressions

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Lexicon

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A tendency for people to characterize positive things about their ingroup using more abstract expressions, but negative things about their outgroups using more abstract expressions

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Linguistic intergroup bias

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Group to which a person does not belong

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Outgroup

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A stimulus presented to a person reminds them about other ideas associated with the stimulus

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Priming

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The hypothesis that the language that people use determines their thoughts

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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

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A mental representation of an event, object, or situation constructed at the time of comprehending a linguistic description

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Situation model

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The hypothesis that the human brain has evolved, so that humans can maintain larger ingroups

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Social-brain hypothesis

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Networks of social relationships among individuals through which information can travel

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Social Networks

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Rules by which words are strung together to form sentences

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Syntax

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The bias to be affected by an initial anchor, even if the anchor is arbitrary, and to insufficiently adjust our judgments away from that anchor

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Anchoring

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The systematic and predictable mistakes that influence the judgment of even very talented human beings

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Biases

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The systematic ways in which we fail to notice obvious and important information that is available to us

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Bounded awareness

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The systematic ways in which our ethics are limited in ways we are not even aware of ourselves

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Bounded ethicality

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Model of human behavior that suggests that humas try to make rational decisions but are bounded due to cognitive limitations

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Bounded rationality

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The systematic and predictable ways in which we care about the outcomes of others

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Bounded self-interest

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The tendency to place greater weight on present concerns rather than future ones

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Bounded willpower

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The bias to be systematically affected by the way in which information is presented, while holding the objective information constant

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Framing

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Cognitive (or thinking) strategies that simplify decision making by using short-cuts

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Heuristics

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The bias to have greater confidence in your judgment than is warranted based on a rational assessment

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Overconfident

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Our intuitive decision-making system, which is typically fast, automatic, effortless, implicit, and emotional

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System 1

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Our more deliberative decision-making system, which is slower, conscious, effortful, explicit, and logical

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System 2

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When did the Official Languages Act of Canada come into effect?

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1969

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What did the Official Languages Act do?

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Gave French and English equal status in Canada

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Smallest unit of speech sound that can convey a unique meaning but carries no meaning itself

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Phoneme

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Smallest unit of meaning. A series of phonemes that has a special meaning

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Morphemes

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Prefixes and suffixes that are bound to words

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Bound Morpheme

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Free morpheme

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“Water”

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Change the meaning of part of speech when they are bound together. Ex: “happy” and “ness”

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Derivational

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Modify the tense of a verb, or the number value of a noun

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Inflectional

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The meaning of words and word combinations

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Semantics

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Derived from the Greek word “syntaxi”

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Syntax

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Describes the set of rules that determine the arrangement of words in a sentence

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Syntax

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Language conveys an infinite number of ideas based on different combinations of words or symbols

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Generative

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Language can build upon itself without limits. We can put words, phrases, and sentences, inside of themselves without limits

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Recursion

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Language can refer to things that are not directly present

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Displacement

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Like other learned behaviors, Language develops through processes of reinforcement and shaping. This is a part of which theory?

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Behaviorist Theory

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Progression through the language milestones occurs though shaping. Is an example of which theory?

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Behaviorist Theory

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Language is an innate faculty is a part of which theory?

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Nativist Theory

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“universal grammar” is the basis upon which all human languages build and is an inborn capacity is part of which theory?

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Nativist Theory

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What is the first stage of Language Development?

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Cooing (3-5 months)

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What is the second stage of Language Development?

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Babbling (5-7 months)

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Cries, gurgles, grunts, breaths and laughs are a part of which language development stage?

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Stage 1

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Intentional and deliberate vocalizations consisting of consonants and vowels but carrying no specific meaning are a part of which language development stage?

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Stage 2

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What is the third stage of language development?

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One-word utterance (12 months)

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Infants and 1 year olds using single words is a part of which language development stage?

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Stage 3

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When a childs vocabulary grows and word are being put together and basic sentence building is a part of which language development stage?

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Stage 4

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What is the fourth language development stage?

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Two-Word utterance (18-24 months)

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What is the fifth stage of language development?

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Sentence-Phase (2.5-3 years)

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By the end of the third year, children are forming complete sentences. This is a part of which language development stages?

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Stage 5

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Model of human behavior that suggests that humas try to make rational decisions but are bounded due to cognitive limitations

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Bounded Rationality

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Bounded rationality is a huma decision-making process in which we attempt to satisfice, rather than optimize

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