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Language Development
Final
Question | Answer |
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Common cause of dementia | Alzheimer's |
What type of memory declines with age? | Declarative Memory |
What type of memory stays unchanged with age? | Non-declarative memory - singing happy birthday, tying shoes |
Working memory declines in aging is a pathological change. | False, it is normal for it to decline |
Cognition declines occur except for what area? Processing speed Divided attention Sustained attention Working memory | Sustained Attention |
Narrowing of vessels that supply blood to the heart is called | Coronary Artery Disease |
Loss of central vision is called | Macular Degeneration |
Inflammation of the joints is called | Arthritis |
Leading cause of death in elderly is | Pneumonia |
Two types of stokes and what happens to the vessels | Ischemic = blood vessel occluded Hemorrhagic = blood vessel bursts |
_____________ bilingual language learners acquire two languages from birth | Simultaneous |
What is the difference between fast mapping and slow mapping? | Fast mapping happens when the person hears a word on a single occasion. Slow mapping occurs when that vocabulary word's meaning is extended by more expriences, knowledge of the word |
Slower speech rate Difficulty in phoneme execution are both the result of | Normal changes in the articulatory system as a result of aging |
One of the speech subsystems | respiratory, phonatory, or articulatory |
Normal changes in speech subsystem as a person ages | R- decreased elasticity of tissue, diminished cough etc. P-loss of vocal fold mass, ossification of laryngeal cartilages etc. A-loss of dentition, decrease of lingual sensation,etc. |
Sequential language learning includes what behaviors | Language loss Interference/transfer Code switching Silent period |
The ability to view language as an object of attention | Metalinguistic Competence |
By what age is children's MLU about the same as adults? | 6 |
Component of language that allows 3 year old to produce subject +verb+object | Syntax |
Rules governing the internal organization of words | Morphology |
Phonological development and knowledge is developed by what age to generally fully intelligible speech? | 3-4 |
Non fluent aphasia is associated with damage to ______area | Broca's |
What system does visual acuity affect? | Sensory-perceptual |
The vocabulary spurt describes what component of language? | Semantics |
Class of sounds that emerges the earliest | Nasals |