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Language Development
Brain Development
MIXED
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What are Concepts?
The mental Grouping of similar objects, events, and people.
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What is Receptive Language?
Development of language moves from simplicity to complexity, this includes when babies learn to comprehend speech and sounds.
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Skinner: Operant Learning?
Skinner's idea that we can explain plain language development with familiar learning principals.
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What is Belief Perseverance?
Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.
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What is Cognation?
A mental activity associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
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What is Productive Language?
The ability to produce words, matures after receptive language includes babbling stage, one-word stage, and two-word stage.
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Chomsky: Inborn Universal Grammar?
Chomsky's idea that with given adequate nurture, language will naturally occur.
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What is the Babbling Stage?
It begins at about 4 months when infants utter various sounds.
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What are Prototypes?
Mental images or best examples of a category.
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What is a morpheme?
In a language it is the smallest unit which carries meaning.
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Broca's Area?
The frontal lobe of the brain that controls language reception.
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What is the One-Word-Stage?
The stage in speech development from which a child speaks mostly in single words (ages 1-2).
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What does Heuristic mean?
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems effectively.
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What is Syntax?
The rules of combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in given languages.
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Wernicke's area?
It is the left temporal lobe that controls language.
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What are the structural components of a language?
Phonemes and Morphemes.
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What is Fixation?
The inability to see a problem from a new perspective.
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What is Grammar?
A language system of rules by which we derive meaning from the morphemes.
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What is Linguistic Determinism by Whorf?
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.
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What is a Phoneme?
The basic unit of a sound.