PSYC 213 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Daniel Kahneman, Legal Drinking Age, Illusory Correlation
6 Dec 2013
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Sounds & conventional symbols, systematic communication (linguistics) Neurocognitive processes for producing & understanding (psychology) Orthographic features / phonological features / words / prosodic contour (lower level) Syntax / semantics compositional analysis : literal/propositional meaning, referential assignment / nonliteral/figurative retrieval / socio-pragmatic meaning. Bilingualism : enhanced executive functions across life span (inhibitory control) / possibly delayed alzheimer"s onset (4 yrs) [failure to replicate] Simultaneously bilingual / 2nd language replaces 1st / added at no cost to 1st. Lexical processing : translation equivalents (dog chien) harder for abstract words / language-specific words are less frequent for bilinguals. Overlapping words have same/different meanings (coin piano dent, cognates. Eye movements during reading (saccades), relative to difficulty of words, comprehension time-course for cognitive processing by eye movement measures : 1st fixation duration / 1st pass gaze / go-past time / total fixation duration. Low vs. high semantic constraints, used matched controls.
