psych 8.3

Question 1

aphasia

Answer 1

a language disorder caused by damage to the brain structures that support using and understanding language

Question 2

Broca’s area

Answer 2

a region of the left frontal lobe that controls our ability to articulate speech sounds that compose words

Question 3

cross-foster

Answer 3

being raised as a member of a family that was not of the same species

Question 4

fast mapping

Answer 4

the ability to map words onto concepts or objects after only a single exposure

Question 5

language

Answer 5

a form of communication that involves the use of spoken, written, or gestural symbols that are combined in a rule-based form

Question 6

morpheme

Answer 6

the smallest meaningful unit of a language

Question 7

phoneme

Answer 7

the most basic of unit of speech sounds

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

the study of nonlinguistic elements of language use

Question 9

semantics

Answer 9

the study of how people come to understand meaning from words

Question 10

syntax

Answer 10

the rules for combining words and morphemes into meaningful phrases and sentences

Question 11

Wernicke’s area

Answer 11

the area of the brain most associated with finding the meaning of words