PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Fast Mapping, Language Development, Dyslexia

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

3. 2 problem solving, judgement, and decision making. Aphasia a language disorder caused by damage to the brain structures that support the usage and understanding of language. Broca"s area the region of the left frontal lobe that controls our ability to articulate speech sounds that compose words (damages to this area are called broca"s aphasia) Individual words are produced without grammatical flair (articles, suffixes or prefixes) Wernicke"s area the area of the brain most associated with finding the meaning of words (damages to this area are called wernicke"s aphasia) Speech does not make sense to other people. Language form of communication that involves the use of spoken, written or gestural symbols that are combined in a rule-based form. Can involve communication about objects and events that are not in present time and place. Language lets us link different sounds with different meanings in order to understand and communicate with other people.