What is learning that has occurred over time when information is acquired, stored, and then retrieved?
Memory
What is it called when misleading information can be incorporated into someone's memory
Misinformation effect
What is Short-term memory and long-term memory
Short: holds a few items briefly Long: permanent and limitless storehouse of memory
Lingustic Determinism
hypothesis that language determines the way we think
What is Proactive interference?
when prior learning disrupts the recall of old information
Stages of language
Babbling Stage (4 months) One word stage (1 year) Two word Stage (18 month)
What is Retroactive Interference?
When new learning disrupts the recall of old information
What do the Broca's Area and Wernicke's Area of the brain do?
Broca's Area: controls language expression Wernicke's Area: controls language reception
What type of memory is a newer understanding of short term memory that processes incoming information and connecting it to information in our long term memory?
Working Memory
What are the three structures of meaning? What does each mean?
Phonemes: smallest distinctive sound units in language Morphemes: smallest unit in a word that carries meaning in a language grammar: systems of rules that languages have to allow communication