Language

Question 1

Mental Representation

Answer 1

Images, ideas, concepts, principles. beliefs, emotions

Question 2

Language

Answer 2

A flexible system that allows for symbolic representation of mental states

Question 3

Thought

Answer 3

Internal Dialogue

Question 4

Nicaraguan Sign Language

Answer 4

Sign language that was developed, spontaneously, by deaf children (gave researchers the opportunity to study birth of a language)

Question 5

Psycholinguistics

Answer 5

Scientific study of psychology of language. Includes how we acquire language, and how we comprehend and produce it

Question 6

Adjacency Pair

Answer 6

A speaker and a responder

Question 7

Common Ground

Answer 7

Information shared by people in a conversation

Question 8

Audience Design

Answer 8

Design statements with audience in mind, using common group to determine how much detail we need to give about the subject

Question 9

Priming

Answer 9

Thinking about one concept and related to previously remembered concepts

Question 10

Linguistic Intergroup Bias

Answer 10

Language bias that can increase stereotypes using abstract language to describe stereotypes and concrete language fro uncharacteristic behaviour

Question 11

Social Networks

Answer 11

Allow gossip to spread

Question 12

Social Brain Hypothesis

Answer 12

Brains have evolved to be larger and more complex to maintain social groups

Question 13

Whorf Linguistic Hypothesis

Answer 13

Language completely determines thought and we can only think in ways that are allowed by our language

Question 14

Theory of Mind

Answer 14

Ability for an individual to understand that other people have their own thoughts and knowledge (usually develops between ages 0 - 6)

Question 15

Agents

Answer 15

Moving objects that act in their own

Question 16

Recognizing Goals

Answer 16

Agents have goal - directed behaviours

Question 17

Intentional

Answer 17

Agent is engaging in behaviour in that the agent believes will bring a desirable outcome

Question 18

Imitation

Answer 18

Copying a behaviour observed in someone else

Question 19

Mimicry

Answer 19

Copying observed behaviour, usually without being aware leading to behaviours being synchronized

Question 20

Automatic Empathy

Answer 20

Mimicking/imitating a behaviour leads to feeling the emotion of the person you are mimicking

Question 21

Joint Attention

Answer 21

Two people attending to the same thing, fully aware that they are both attending to it

Question 22

Visual Perspective Taking

Answer 22

Perceiving something from another person’s visual point of view

Question 23

Simulation

Answer 23

Representing another person’s mental state

Question 24

Projection

Answer 24

Assuming that someone else’s knowledge, desires and feelings are the same as your own

Question 25

Inferring Mental States

Answer 25

Being able to take another persons perspective, seperate from our own

Question 26

False - Belief Tasks

Answer 26

Testing if a child understands that people have different information than them

Question 27

Syntax

Answer 27

Rules by which words are strung together to form sentences

Question 28

Situation Model

Answer 28

Mental representation of an event, object, or situation constructed at the time of comprehending a linguistic description

Question 29

Conversational Coordination

Answer 29

In a conversation, people are likely to use the same syntactic structures, same expressions, and exhibit similar accents and rates of speech