The Brain
The part of the nervous system comprised of the spinal cord and brain.
What is the Central Nervous System?
Pauses in talk and play allow for the infant to understand the time for their response
What is Turn Taking?
Another word for vocabulary.
What is Lexicon?
The intention behind language is known as...
a. Semantics
b. Syntax
c. Pragmatics
What is C. Pragmatics?
Information is stored here while being processed. It must be repeated and reinforced many times before being sent to long-term memory.
a. Sensory Memory
b. Working Memory
What is b. Working Memory?
The minuscule space between the axon of one neuron and the dendrites of another.
What is a synapse?
At 4 months, an infant can follow the caregiver's line of regard. By 8 months the child will reach with his arms to demonstrate desire for an object. By 12 months, the child names things. These three snapshots are of a child developing..
What is Joint Reference?
When a child says one word that may convey meaning of a whole phrase.
What is a holophrase?
The meaning behind speech is...
a. Syntax
b. Semantics
c. Phonology
What is b. Semantics?
This term refers to the categorization and storage of new information into existing schemas.
a. Assimilation
b. Representational Competence
What is a. Assimilation?
The outermost gray layer of the brain made up of neurons.
What is the cortex?
A child understands the meaning of a new word using what he already knows about the sentence structure in which the word is spoken.
What is Semantic Bootstrapping?
The CVCV syllable pattern typical in the vocalizations of a 5 month-old infant. It has a social element.
a. Single-Word Utterance
b. Multi-Word Utterance
c. Babbling
What is c. Babbling?
Sound units or sequences are known as...
What is Phonology? (phonemes)
When new information doesn't fit existing schemas, a new category must be formed or an old one is modified.
a. Assimilation
b. Accommodation
What is b. Accommodations?
Located in the left temporal lobe, this language processing area of the brain is responsible for organizing the underlying structure of outgoing messages and analyzing incoming linguistic information.
What is Wernicke's Area?
Becoming used to a stimulus after repeated exposure.
What is Habituation?
A child saying "anku" instead of thank you is an example of...
What is a single-word approximation?
Word order and relationships is known as...
What is syntax?
As children learn to categorize concepts for easy retrieval, memory becomes less context bound and less situation specific. This categorization can be referred to as...
a. Representational Competence
b. Situational Competence
What is a. Representational Competence?
This is the cortical area of the left frontal lobe responsible for detailing and coordinating the production of speech.
What is Broca's Area?
These exchanges contain the paralinguistic elements of an adult-like communication exchange including initiation, joint attention, greetings and disengagement, though they may contain few or no identifiable words.
What are protoconversations?
A child that may use the word "cup" to describe only their cup is an example of...
What is an underextension?
Word beginnings and endings are known as...
What is morphology?
These are unanalyzed chunks of language spoken by a toddler, repeating a phrase they've heard routinely from a parent or caregiver.
a. Formulas
b. Jargon
What is a. Formulas?