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| Rules showing how words and phrases can be combined into sentences |
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| the study of the sound units that affect speech; The study of the smallest units of speech, called phonemes |
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| Rules governing the meaning of words and sentences |
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| language production and language comprehension develop in infants at about the same time. True or False |
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| False; Language comprehension precedes language production. |
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| The communication of information through symbols arranged to systematic rules |
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| The system of rules that determine how our thoughts can be expressed |
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| The smallest units of speech |
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| Meaningless speechlike sounds made by children from around 3 months through 1 year |
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| sentences in which words not critical to the message are left out |
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| The phenomenon by which children apply language rules even when the application results in error |
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| Learning-theory approach (to language development) |
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| The theory suggesting that language acquisition follows the principals of reinforcement and conditioning. |
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| Noam Chomskys theory that all of the worlds languages share a common underlying structure |
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| language-acquisition device |
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| a neural system of the brain hypothesized by Noam Chomsky to permit understanding of language |
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| interactionist approach (to language development) |
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| The view that language development is produced through a combination of genetically determined predispositions and environmental circumstances that help teach language |
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| linguistic-relativity hypothesis |
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| the notion that language shapes and may determine the way people in a particular culture perceive and understand the world |
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| the capacity to understand the world, think rationally, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges |
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| the single, general factor for mental ability assumed to underlie intelligence |
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| intelligence that reflects information processing capabilities, reasoning , and memory |
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| the accumulation of information, skills, and strategies that are learned through experience and can be applied in problem- solving situations; learned through experience |
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| theory of multiple intelligences |
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| Gardner's intelligence theory proposing that there are eight distinct spheres of intelligence. |
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| according to Sternberg, intelligence related to overall success of living; intelligence in terms of nonacademic, career and personal success |
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| the set of skills that underlie accurate assessment, evaluation, expression and regulation of emotions; intelligence that provides an understanding of what other people are feeling and experiencing and permits us to respond appropriately to other's needs |
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| tests devised to quantify a persons level of intelligence |
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| the age for which a given level performance is average or typical |
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| Intelligence Quotient (IQ) |
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| A score that takes account an individuals mental and chronological age |
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| the property by which tests actually measure what they are suppose to measure |
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| Standards of test performance that permit the comparison of one persons' score on a test with the scores of other individuals who have taken the same test |
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| a condition characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and and in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills |
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| the most common cause of mental retardation in newborns occurring when the mother uses alcohol during pregnancy |
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| a test that does not discriminate against the members of any minority group |
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