Module 4 Flashcards

• Prenatal Development:

• Blastocyst:

• Embryonic Stage:

• One month after conception, the zygote develops

• Two months after conception, fetal stage begins

• Teratogens: things that disrupt development (smoking, drinking, sickness during pregnancy)

• Habituation Procedures: is the decline in responding to a stimulus once the stimulus has become familiar

• Schemas: patterns of knowledge and long-term memory that help them remember and organize information

• Accommodation:

• A Not B Effect

• The Heinz Dilemma

• Moral Reasoning is different than Moral Behavior

• Development:

Language:

• Aphasia: a neurological impairment of language

• Broca’s Area: production of speech

• Wernicke’s Area: speak fluently, but in a way that does not make sense

• Phonetics and Phonology: how the brain processes speech and sound

• Morphology: study of word structure

• Syntax: study of how words are combined to create a sentence

• Semantics: the meaning of a word in a sentence

• Pragmatics: the context that creates meaning

• Universal Grammar: we’re born with an ability to acquire language

• Labial Consonants: words spoken more with lips than tongue

• Stop Consonant: where airflow is blocked [p] and [b]

• Our brains are configured for language

• Consonants are produced by blocking airflow