Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Simon Effect, Voice-Onset Time, Executive Functions

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Rod Martin

Document Summary

Outline: learning two languages instead of one. One disadvantage is that l1 (the main language of the speaker) vocabulary is typically lower in bilinguals than monolinguals. This is especially true in young children their receptive vocabulary in english will be lower than one who speaks only english, because bilingual will spend half time learning each language. One possible advantage is that bilingual individuals may be advantaged in other aspects of cognitive functioning compared to bilinguals. This has been reported in the case of executive functioning. Might show advantages in other aspects of thinking other than language. Dimensional change card sort task: a measure of executive functioning, sorting things based on color, or based on shape. When you see green press left, when you see red press left. When you see green arrow pointing to the right and on the right side (incongruent trial), it is more difficult/ takes longer to press left.