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What is language? What is psycholinguistics?
Language:
A shared symbolic system for communication
Occurs impressively fast
Psycholinguistics:
Interdisciplinary field that examines how ppl use language to communicate ideas
What are the 6 fundamental properties of laguage?
What is the structure of language (i.e., what is/are phonemes, morphemes, syntax, grammar, semantics, and pragmatics)?
Who is Noam Chomsky? What is his theory of language? What did he mean by competence vs. performance? What is deep sentence structure? What is surface sentence structure? What is an ambiguous sentence?
What were the reactions to Chompsy’s theory of language? What is the cognitive-functional approach
What is Broca’a area responsible for? What is Broca’s aphasia? What is Wernicke’s area responsible for? What is Wernicke’s aphasia?
What are some reasons why we have difficulties perceiving phonemes? What can help us perceive phonemes?
Warren & Wallace (1970) conducted important research. What did they do, find, and what does it mean? What is the phoneme restoration effect?
What is the McGurk effect? What does it tell us about our ability to perceive phonemes?
Jessee & Massaro (2010) conducted important research. What did they do, find, and what does it mean?
What are the approaches to reading? What is the direct-access route? What is the indirect-access route? What is the dual-route approach?
What are the different methods to teach children to read & how are they related to the approaches to reading?
What is a situation model?
Glenberg et al. (1987) conducted important research. What did they do, find, and what does it mean?
What is incremental interpretation? Is this a top-down or bottom-up process?
What is lateralization? What types of tasks do the different brain hemispheres contribute to?
What is forgetting and learning curve?
Learning curve: rapid incline, then slower incline
Forgetting curve: rapid decline, then slower decline
Who was Mary Calkins? What was she interested in? What effect did she discover?
1st woman president of the APA
Interested in cognition in the real world - applied questions to student’s learning
Discovered the recency effect - superior recall for items at the end of the life