Psycholinguistics
and its branches
and its branches
Which culture was the first to catalog the effects of specific damage to the brain?
The Egyptians
According to this theory, you must pay attention to the students' emotions.
Humanistic Theory
Which side of your body does the left side of your brain control?
To recall information and past experiences is to use your...
Memory
Adults have an initial advantage in learning grammar because of this internal factor.
Age
Which branch studies how we learn our mother tongue?
Language acquisition
Which theory mentions that we learn language by echoing others?
The Behaviorist Theory
In which hemisphere are the Wernicke's and Broca's areas located?
The left hemisphere.
Mention three kinds of memory.
Sensory, short-term, long-term, implicit, explicit, declarative, procedural, episodic, semantic.
What is aptitude?
It is a natural ability or skill that we have towards something.
Which branch studies the processes and mechanisms of the brain?
Language processing
What does the socio-cultural theory emphasize?
That we need social interaction to learn and develop cognitively.
Identify the location of your occipital lobe.
If they point to the back of the head, they are right.
Which type of attention can you use to respond to multiple task demands?
Divided attention
Mention 3 personality traits that may affect language learning.
Self-Esteem, extroversion, anxiety, sensitivity to rejection, inhibition
What do neurolinguistics study?
-Function of language in the brain
-The hemispheres and their functions
-How brain damages affect language learning
The mental processes used according to the cognitivist theory are...
Perception
Memory
Comprehension
What is the function of Broca's area?
It has the function of producing articulate speech.
Which lobe helps us direct our attention to different locations and objects?
The parietal lobe
How is a concrete learner?
-Learn from direct experience
-Interested in language use
-People-oriented
Which year was the term "psycholinguistics" presented?
1936
The learners doing a project where they work in teams, searching for the words and correcting each other is an activity following this theory.
Constructivist Theory
Give an example of when we use Wernicke's area.
When we read and understand what is written.
What is perception?
It is the interpretation of sensory information to represent and understand the presented information.
A Russian moving to Mexico to learn Mexican Spanish is an example of this kind of natural context factor.
Majority Language Context