PSYC 3800- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 20 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3800
• Professor: Anne Milne

Document Summary

Bilingualism: the good, the bad and the indifferent. * the effect on linguistic performance is generally seen as a de cit in which bilingual children control a smaller vocabulary than their monolingual peers and bilingual adults perform more poorly on rapid lexical retrieval tasks. * the effect on cognitive performance is to enhance executive functioning and to protect against the decline of executive control in aging. These effects interact to produce a complex pattern regarding the effect of bilingualism on memory performance. * memory tasks based primarily on verbal recall are performed more poorly by bilinguals but memory tasks based primarily on executive control are performed better by bilinguals. * this region has been shown to be responsive to vocabulary acquisition in monolinguals and bilinguals as well as producing enlargements in slightly. * bilinguals control a smaller vocal in each language than monolinguals.