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PSY 333 Final Exam
Term | Definition |
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What is the first method of communication? | crying |
When does Native Language Preference appear? | Evident hours after birth |
Where are Properties of language learned? | In the womb |
When can babies distinguish speech from other sounds? | From the moment baby is born |
When can babies distinguish Lexical words? | Less than 24 hours old |
Still Face Study | Mom tries to engage infant Moms face goes still so baby tries to make noises to get a response. Then baby gets distressed when efforts don’t elicit a response |
Upside-down mom condition | Baby can’t interpret upside-down face as a face |
Mixed expression and emotion condition | Infant is attuned to emotional expressions in the face and voice and knows that they are supposed to match |
Eye-Gaze condition | o Mom speaks to infant, but does not look at infant o Infant tries to get mom’s attention but gets upset when mom does not respond o Gaze plays an essential role in human interaction |
Up to what age can infant can distinguish all sounds? | 6 months |
What happens between 6 and 10 months regarding distinguishing sounds? | Brain filters out sounds that are not in its own environment If exposed to a 2nd language in this range of time, baby can learn the sounds of 2 languages |
Motherese and Fatherese | o Sing-songy o Higher pitch o Sentences reduced to short phrases o Babies respond to this comforting language o Repeats words – Helps baby learn words |
All babies babble the same way until what age? | 9 months |
What is Babbling? | Babies practice sounds of what they hear around them Babies reproduce sounds that parents make |