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Language facilitates

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thinking, problem solving and decision making.

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Language is unique to

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humans and supports creative and progressive social interaction

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Language production

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the structured and convention expression of thoughts through words

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Speech

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the expression of language through sounds

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Language comprehension

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the process of understanding spoke, written or signed language

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6 characteristics of language production

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Phonology, Phoneme, Semantics, Morpheme,, Lexical meaning, Syntax

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Phonology is

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the study of how individual sounds or phonemes are used to produce language

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phoneme

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the smallest unit of sound in language, and individual sound

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Semantics

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the study of how meaning in language is constructed of individual words and sentences

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Morpheme

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the smallest unit of a language that conveys meaning

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Lexical meaning

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dictionary meaning of a word

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Syntax

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the system for conveying meaning using words and order

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Pragmatics

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the practical aspects of language usage including speech pace, gesturing and body language

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6 Sequence of language learning

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Prevocal - Babbling - First Words - Telegraphic Speech - Pragmatics - Grammar

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Prevocal learning

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occurs at 2-4 months old. Babies distinguish all phonemes they will later use for language such as cooing

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Babbling

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6 months: meaningless experimental sounds

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telegraphic specch

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2 years of age - two word sentences omitting all but essential words

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three theories of how language develops

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nature, nurture, nature and nurture

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Chomsky theorized

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children are genetically programmed at birth to learn language

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Skinner theorized about language:

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language is entirely learned because of rewards from certain words and sounds

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Interactionalist perspective

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both theories of nature and nurture are important

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Critical period

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stage when an individual is particularly open to specific learning

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Sensitive Period

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stage in development wen an individual can best acquire specific skills like language. Before 13

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Child directed speech

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high pitched voice

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Overregulation and Grammar Development are
affected by the environment. It is the process by which elementary school children apply learned grammatical rules to improperly correct and irregular verb. For instance, thinking instead of thought
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Broca's Area
Critical for speech production. It is associated with grammar comprehension and located in the frontal lobe
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Agrammatism
The inability to speak with proper grammar. It is in the Broca's area
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Wernicke's Area
Critical for language comprehension. It is located in the temporal lobe
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Aphasia
type of language loss
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Broca's aphasia
unable to produce coherent speech
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Wernicke's Aphasia
unable to comprehend speech
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amygdala
important for fear and aggression. It is involved in the use of profanity
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Right hemisphere and language
important for understanding figurative language. Damage to this can lead to taking figurative language seriously
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Prefrontal Cortex and Temporal Lobe are important for
second language learned after childhood
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Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
The vocabulary available for objects or concepts in a language influences how speakers of that language think about them
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controlled processing
in thought, effortful and relies on a limited capacity system
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cognitive control
guiding thinking and action, guiding attention, pursuing complex behviour
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Executive Function
the brains ability to control and manage the mental processing of information
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dysexecutive syndrome
impairments in the ability to control and direct mental activites
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Automatic processing
seems effortless, not usually disrupted much if we are distracted and requires less attention
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3 strategies of problem solving
algorithm, heuristic and insight
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algorithm
step by step procedure to solving problems that guarantees a solution
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Heuristics
short cut to solving problems but does not guarantee a correct solution such as an analogy, working backwards
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Insight
sudden realization of an answer
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Mental set
tendency to use problem solving strategies that have worked in the past
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Functional Fixedness
our failure to use familiar objects in novel ways to solve our problems
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Confirmation bias
we often search for information that confirms our expectations
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Representative Heuristic
In decision making, guessing the probability of something based on how closely a new object is judged to resemble our existing stereotype of that object
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Available Heuristic
guessing the probability of something based on how quickly and easily information bearing on it come to mind
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Rational decision making
decide on criteria, rank options on how well they meet the criteria
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Emotional decision making
important in social interactions. People often make irrational decisions based on emotions
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framing
the way information is presented to represent either a potential grain or potential loss
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metacognition
thinking about ones own thoughts such as reviewing memories, considering past learning to understand events in the present
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theory of the mind
thinking about another persons feelings or intentions. Many people are capable of complicated thought and seem to possess a theory of mind
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Anxiety disorder characterized by the presence of anxiety producing thoughts or obsessions. May perform compulsive actions to help get rid of the obsessive thoughts
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Schizophrenia
psychotic disorder in which an individual had lost touch with reality. People may experience hallucinations, delusions, heightened perceptions

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