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Mod 24
Language and Thought
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| At what age does babbling occur? | about 4 months |
| spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them as we think and communicate. | language |
| is babbling an imitation of adult speech? | NO, it includes sounds from various languages, even those not spoken in the household. |
| Can deaf infants babble? | yes, they babble more with their hands when they observe their parents signing. |
| when can babbling change to the trained ear can identify language? | at 10 months |
| the stage in speech development from about age 1 to 2 during which a child speaks mostly in single words. | one-word stage |
| beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements. | two-word stage |
| early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telgram - " go car" - using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting auxiliary words. | telegraphic speech (at 24 months; 2yrs) |
| What country created thier own Sign Language? | Nicaragua's young deaf children- complete with words and intricat |
| Language develops rapidly into complete sentences by what age? | 24 months (2yrs) and up |
| By what age do you lose the ability to master any language? | early years (by about age 7) |
| Genes (nature)are to design for mechanisms for a language | as experience(nuture) is to modifying the brain. |
| Learning get harder with age- True or False? | True; those who arrive to learn a langugage before age 8, learn better than those who arrive later. |
| linguistic determinsm | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think. |
| language does/does not determine the way we think? | does not- thinking affects our language which affects our thought. |
| Most native English speakers, including most Americans, | are monolingual. |
| Most native English speakers, including most Americans, | are monolingual. |
| Most humans speak how many languages? | most are bilingual or multilingual |
| the bilingual advantage | increased word power |
| those who learn to read left to right | will picture someone pushing from the left. |
| nondeclarative (procedural) memory | a mental picture of how you do it. |
| watching an activity (like ballet, piano playing) | activates the brain's internal simulation |
| information processing | occurs outside of conciousness and beyond language; only occasionally surface as conscious words |
| can animals form concepts? | yes, especially great apes.(in their frontal lobes) |
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