Definitions
Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.
What is language?
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.
What is a concept?
Speech during the two-word stage of language acquisition in children, which is laconic and efficient.
What is telegraphic speech?
A child saying “Mama” or “Dada”.
What is the one-word stage?
A conversation involves using ______ ?
What is language?
The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words.
What is the one-word stage?
A hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality or its abstractions.
What is mental representation?
The grouping of trees, oxygen, shade, paper, green, branch, leaf, trunk.
What is a concept?
Example: A baby saying “I hungry”.
What is the telegraphic stage?
After doing poorly on an interview, you think that you’ll never get a job and begin to feel hopeless.
What is overgeneralization?
A language’s set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds.
What is semantics?
The study of the ability of natural language speakers to communicate more than that which is explicitly stated.
What is pragmatics?
BONUS: The definition psychology is ____
What is the science of behavior and mental processes?
A child's ability to listen and follow directions (e.g. “put on your coat”)
What is receptive language?
What is a mental representation?
In language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word.
What is morpheme?
The “input” of language, the ability to understand and comprehend spoken language that you hear or read.
What is receptive language?
A cognitive distortion in which an individual views a single event as an invariable rule.
What is overgeneralization?
The Hopi who have no past tense for their verbs, could not readily think about the past.
What is linguistic determination?
A child might make use of semantics to understand a mom's directive to “do your chores” as, “do your chores whenever you feel like it.” However, the mother was probably saying, “do your chores right now.”
What is semantics?
After damage to a specific of the left temporal lobe, people area unable to understand others’ words and could only speak meaningless words.
What is Wernicke’s aphasia?
Language determines the way we think.
What is linguistic determinism?
Example: "Woman" in the word womanly.
What is morpheme?
If one person asked, "What do you want to eat?" and another responded, "Ice cream is good this time of year." The second person did not explicitly say what they wanted to eat, but their statement implies that they want to eat ice cream.
What is pragmatics?
Damage to the left temporal lobe causes this.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?