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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
12/15/2011

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Term
How is language unique?
Definition
Creativity
Universality
Term
Universal because languages have
Definition
Nouns and verbs
Express negativity
questions
Can refer to past
Term
Broca's area controls
Definition
Speech fluency
Term
Wernicke's area controls
Definition
Speech meaning
Term
All words a person understands
Definition
Lexicon
Term
Shortest Segment of speech
Definition
Phenome
Term
Subject will choose letter more rapidly if it was part of a word
Definition
Word superiority effect
Term
Process of perceiving individual words in a sentence
Definition
Speech segmentation
Term
People identify common words faster
Definition
Word frequency effect
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Semantics
Definition
Meanings of words and sentences
Term
Syntax
Definition
Rules for combining words into sentences
Term
Mental groupings of words in a sentence into phrases
Definition
Parsing
Term
This occurs when a sentence can be parsed in more than one way
Definition
Synactic Ambiguity
Term
Parser assumes that new word is part of current phrase
Definition
Late closure
Term
Even after entire sentence is read, still ambiguity
Definition
Standing ambiguity
Term
Ambiguity is restored by end of sentence
Definition
Temporary ambiguity
Term
Way text is required in a readers mind so info in different parts of text are related
Definition
Coherence
Term
Creating info that is not explicitly stated in the text
Definition
Inference
Term
Connect an object or person to an object or person in another sentence
Definition
Anaphoric
Term
Inferences about tools or memories
Definition
Instrumental inference
Term
Decide results in one sentence caused by events in another sentence
Creative Process
Definition
Causal inference
Term
Intended meaning different from literal meaning
who uses these?
Definition
Indirect statement
East Asians
Term
Culture's language can affect the way people think
Definition
Sapir Wharf hypothesis
Term
Difficult to discriminate between stimuli in same category
Definition
Categorical Perception
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