AP Psychology1
A baby babbling in the one-word stage represents
Receptive language
What is an example of a morpheme?
(Any real word)
Two young infants that are twins have made up a “secret twin language” known as
Cryptophasia/Idioglossia
What is the function of Wernicke’s area?
To aid in the comprehension of language
What is known as the impairment of language, usually damaged in the left hemisphere to the Broca’s area or Wernicke’s area?
Aphasia
Which of the following displays an example of visual language?
A teacher crosses their arms as they disagree about a controversial topic with a student. (Any body language)
What process is known as mentally grouping similar events, people, objects, or ideas?
Concepts
What formation of thoughts and a solution occurs suddenly in your head, sometimes known as an “Ah-ha moment?"
Insight
What is the type of bias in which people seek out and try to recall/remember information that supports their preconceived beliefs/ideas?
Confirmation bias
Social learning theory suggests that language is learned through reinforcement and punishment and that a baby may imitate their parent. This theory is supported by which famous psychologist?
B.F. Skinner
What is the process where people develop skills without the memory of learning how to do them (also why we don’t remember learning how to walk or speak from when people were toddlers)?
Infantile Amnesia
"Nativist" theory suggests what about all languages?
They all share some sort of common element
In Anterograde Amnesia, people will remember who they are and what experiences occurred in the past, but they won’t be able to form new…
Memories
What two parts of the brain network are dedicated to explicit memory formation?
Frontal lobes and hippocampus
What is the process where there is an increase in a cell’s firing capability after a short period of rapid stimulation?
Long-term potentiation
True or False: It is possible for other animals to learn human language.
True
What type of encoding incorporates repeating something out loud or in your head/mind multiple times to learn it?
Acoustic
What is the purpose of a phoneme in a language?
To be able to distinguish between several different sounds
What is the difference between the two explicit memory types, episodic and semantic memories?
Episodic memory is a type of event, usually about yourself, but semantic memory is about facts such as a color or state
What animal is a well-known example of a non-human animal learning a human language?
Koko the Gorilla