01:830:331 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fast Mapping, Pragmatics, Egocentrism

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:331
• Professor: Linnea Dickinson

Document Summary

Typical 6 year old can understand up to 20,000 words: know the definitions of and be able to apply the terms fast mapping, pragmatics, grammar and morphology. Fast mapping: allows a child to pick up the approximate meaning of a word after hearing it only it once. Pragmatics: how to use the words to communicate. Grammar: how to put words into sentences and make sense of them. The info-processing and piagetian are the other two approaches: psychometric only measures how well someone can do under certain circumstances, does(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:373)easure a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g fi(cid:454)ed a(cid:271)out a perso(cid:374) Iq tests do(cid:374)(cid:859)t sa(cid:455) a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out (cid:272)onsistent intellectual abilities: know what reliability and validity mean and in what way each has been challenged in relation to iq tests. Reliability: how well something is measured (cid:272)riti(cid:272)s sa(cid:455) it(cid:859)s (cid:374)ot al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s relia(cid:271)le for e(cid:448)er(cid:455)o(cid:374)e. Validity: measuring (cid:449)hat it(cid:859)s supposed to (cid:271)e (cid:373)easuri(cid:374)g.