Psycholinguistics
TRUE or FALSE: Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary study that examines how people use language to communicate their ideas.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: The right hemisphere deals with speech perception, sound interpretation, meaning, and imagery
FALSE
Readers use both direct and indirect access routes to read...
The Dual-Route Approach to Reading.
Huitema et al. (1993) tested far/near placement of test sentences from their objective, results showed...
Inconsistent phrases were read significantly more slowly no matter the proximity.
The difference between phoneme and morpheme is...
Phoneme is a basic unit of SPOKEN language while morpheme is a basic unit of MEANING.
Both hemispheres of the brain perform...
Resolving ambiguities, combine the meaning of several sentences, and interpret subtle word meanings.
Recognition directly through vision without sounding words...
The Direct Access Approach.
Cassady (2004) tested whether test anxiety affected a student's skills in properly understanding the educational information, results showed...
People who were highly anxious students tended to perform poorly on reading comprehension and had overall poor studying skills.
Function of human language in our everyday life is to communicate meaning to other individuals...
Cognitive Functional Approach
First discovered by Rizzolatti et al. (1996), a network of neurons in the brain's motor cortex that activates when viewing someone perform an action is...
The Mirror System.
People often translate visual stimuli into sound before reading..
The Indirect-Access Route
Calvo-Merino et al. (2005) studied the mirror system by presenting ballet experts and martial arts experts' videos of ballet and martial arts, results showed...
The fMRI showed greater activation of motor cortex of experts in ballet when watching ballet vs. martial arts. Similarly, martial arts experts showed greater activation of motor cortex when watching martial arts.
Noam Chomsky was a major influence in the world of psycholinguistics because he...
Argued humans are born with the innate language ability to produce and understand sentences language abilities are separate from other cognitive skills. His ideas contributed to a shift away from behaviorism and revolutionized the work of linguistics.
The differences between Broc's Area and Wernicke's Area is...
Broc's Area is located in the front of the brain, is responsible for speech production, and if damaged leads to hesitant speech. Wernicke's Area is located in the back of the brain and is responsible for understanding language.
The benefits of the Dual-Route Approach to Reading include...
It's flexible and is consistent with brain-imaging research.
Bradshaw and Nettleton (1974) studied the Direct-Access Approach by attempting to test out whether participants pronunciations on similar spelled words, but different sounding, would be influenced by reading the first word first, results showed...
Individuals were able to pronounce the second word with no hesitation, are able to directly recognize the word through their vision and did not have to silently pronounce each word to understand the reading.