CDS250 Ch. 3-4

broca’s area

programming motor strip for speech

wernicke’s area

language comprehension

executive functioning

consists of your memory and the many process that aid in this process

attention

awareness of learning situations and active cognitive processing

organization

information is organized or chunked by category

sensation

ability to register sensory information

perception

using both sensory information and previous knowledge to make sense of incoming stimuli

motor control

involves muscle movement and the sensory feedback that informs the brain of the extent of that movement

cognition

mental activities involved in comprehension of information including acquisition, organization and storage, memory, and the use of knowledge

reflexes

ensure survival, allow infant to react to things in the world while learning to control their body

discrimination of phonemes

newborns can identify every phoneme contrast used in human languages

reduplicated babbling

strings of CVCV repetitions or self imitations such as mamma

echolalia

immediate imitation of another speaker

variegated babbling

adjacent and successive syllables are not identical