Language

Question 1

What is hyper scanning?

Answer 1

Neural signal of 2 or more people simultaneously to relate them to each other.

Question 2

What are the similarities between human and animal communication?

Answer 2

Dialect, syntax, signal, modality, complex systems and genes linked with communication.

Question 3

What are the differences between human and animal communication?

Answer 3

Animals only communicate here and now whereas humans communicate in tenses. Animals communication is not productive or it is limited, understanding to create new signals and words if necessary in humans.

Question 4

What is Skinner’s verbal language behaviour theory?

Answer 4

Children learn language through operant conditioning, imitate speech they hear because its rewarded.

Question 5

What is Chomsky’s theory on language behaviour?

Answer 5

The ability for verbal language is innate, children say sentences that have never been rewarded, e.g. incorrect grammar.

Question 6

What is psycholinguistics?

Answer 6

Scientific field that is dedicated to discover psychological processing of language.

Question 7

What are the levels of processing?

Answer 7

Phonemes, classifying relevant language sound.
Words, retrieving word meaning.
Discourse , placed into a situation/meaning.

Question 8

What is the mental lexicon?

Answer 8

Contains all the words a person understands.

Question 9

What is lexical semantics?

Answer 9

The meaning of each word.

Question 10

What is syntactic processing?

Answer 10

Understanding relations between words.

Question 11

What is discourse integration?

Answer 11

Relating and embedding meaning in context.

Question 12

What is Orthographic?

Answer 12

How language is written, recognising a word.

Question 13

What is phonological?

Answer 13

Auditory understanding.

Question 14

What is an example of the tip of the tongue phenonmemon?

Answer 14

Cannot think of the phonological meaning but can recall the semantic. Or can read words without taking in the understanding or meaning, can say a word without the meaning but still understand it.

Question 15

What is the phonemic restoration effect?

Answer 15

Phonemes can be perceived when an extraneous noise covers up half of the sentence, using top-down processing, even if there is not meaning to the sound.
Also the meaning of the word can be recognised in a sentence is said word has multiple meanings dependant on context.

Question 16

What is the idea of recognising boundaries in speech?

Answer 16

Speech segmentation, can separate words that are said too quickly.

Question 17

What is the patient study for speech production?

Answer 17

Broca’s patient Tan Tan, could understand semantics e.g. amount of fingers being shown but could only produce the words Tan Tan due to damage to the Brocas area in the brain.

Question 18

What is the patient study for speech comprehension?

Answer 18

Wrenickes study showed a patient who could speak perfectly but did not understand the meaning of the words they were producing due to damage in the Wrenickes area.

Question 19

What does the Broca’s area do?

Answer 19

Produce speech, formulate sentence structure and understand it from others and order language sound units.

Question 20

What does the Wrenickes area do?

Answer 20

Language comprehension, holds a large representation of messages and processes meaning to hold as memory.