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Brain Business
Lang. Acquisition
Just for fun
LAD's & Skinner Stuff
Opps I did it again!
100
Isle and Aisle, Bear and Bare, Die and Dye are examples of .....
Homonyms
100
Most words are a collection of letters that have no rational relationship with what they represent, instead, they are ________.
Arbitrary
100
The square root of 16 is....
4
100
DAILY DOUBLE #3
Skinner believed that language is acquired through principles of _____.
100
You have two of them on your face!
Eyes
200
What does Proponent mean?
Someone who is for an idea!
200
Explain the difference between expressive and Receptive language
Expressive is the ability to speak and receptive is the ability to understand
200
The ordinal number that precedes fifth.
Fourth
200
What is association?
The idea that children learn words by associating sounds with objects, actions, and events.
200
Some one who you look up to!
Idol
300
What is a cognitive neuroscientist?
Someone who studies the brain!
300
Give me one reason the critics say the behaviorist theory is inadequate.
Answers vary
300
To give up without even playing!
Forfeit
300
Give me evidence for an innate human capacity to acquire language
Answers Vary!
300
Bad bad bad group of people!
ISIS
400
Daily DOUBLE # 1
Language can be used to describe itself. What is that a definition of?
400
DAILY DOUBLE #2
Give me an example of an over-regularized verb!
400
You learn these in math! And maybe science as well!
Formulas!
400
What is abstractness?
The ability to talk about things that are not right in front of us!
400
It is poisonous please don't touch that plant!
Poison IVY
500
Give me a simile to describe the brain!
Answers Vary!
500
Explain negative reinforcement!
Answers Vary!
500
Lucky you! You are so .......
Fortunate
500
Who was the first guy who believed that our capacity to use language was innate.
Plato
500
To be alone by yourself is to.......
Isolate