PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Final Guide: Predictive Validity, Mental Age, Confirmation Bias
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Psych 240 exam 3 review sheet winter 2016 th /17th. Speech spectrograms, formants, steady state and transitional formants. The neurobiology of language: broca"s aphasia, wernicke"s aphasia, conduction aphasia. The neural pathway for repeating a heard word (auditory cortex to wernicke"s area to broca"s area to motor cortex). Learn language without negative feedback about grammar/pronunciation; suggests linguistic universals. Language development: phonemes (can discriminate all phonemes from all languages during 1st year, gradually lose non-relevant discriminations), motherese (adults help kids with high pitch, slow rate, exaggerated intonation). Major stages: holophrastic (one-word) stage, telegraphic (two-word) stage, learning syntax/rules/generalization (u-shaped learning of irregular past tense; nonsense words) Critical period effects: social isolation, 2nd language learners, sign language. Animal language: alex the parrot, kanzi the bonobo chimp, other ape language learners. March 22cd, 24th, lectures 16, 17: problem solving, chapter 12. Representations fit problems. example: monk climbing the hill problem. Trapped by easy or familiar perspective: trains meeting problem.
