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Undergraduate 4
12/07/2013

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where is brocas area located?
Definition
frontal lobe, left
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Bocas area is important for what aspect of communication?
Definition
speech production
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what are executive behaviors?
Definition

reasoning

problem solving

planning

hypothesis

socially aware

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which cerebral lobe is the site of executive funcitoning?
Definition
frontal
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what is the difference between experience-expectant and experience dependent brain placiity
Definition

expectent = nature

dependent = nurture

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what is the difference between MRI and FMRI
Definition

MRI - lay still, loud, bad if you are claustrophic

fMRI - engage in mental process while getting image read.

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what communication process occurs in Wernicke's area?
Definition

auditory compreension - attach meaning to what we hear

 

Term
another name for auditory comprehension?
Definition
auditory associatoi cortex
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where is Wernicke's area located?
Definition
temporal lobe, left
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what is neurolingusitics?
Definition
the brain and language
Term
what is linguistics?
Definition

science of language, can study linguistics with books and analyze language apart from ppl 

can do all by yourself

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what is psycholinguistics?
Definition
the behavior of language and ppl
Term

language comprehension 

language production

language acquistion 

animal communication 

is all under what category of linguistics?

Definition
psycholinguistics
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psycholinguistics was coined by:
Definition
charles osgood
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who coined the phrase neurolinguistics?
Definition
lenneberg
Term
differentiate betweeen efferent and afferent neural pathways?
Definition

afferent - to the brain from the body 

sensory

efferent - from the brain to the rest of the body 

motor

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what role do the meninges play?
Definition
help cushion the brain and protect it
Term
what are the three layers of the meninges
Definition

arachnoid mater

pia mater

dura mater

Term
where is primary visual cortex located?
Definition
occipital love
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what is primary cortex located?
Definition

in each temporal lobe

 

Term
what is another name for auditory cortex?
Definition
hechl's gyrus
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is primary auditory cortex in both hemispheres or just the dominant hemisphere?
Definition
both
Term
what is working memory
Definition
short term
Term
how does speech perception differ from speech production during the first year of life?
Definition

speech produciton in limited awaiting greater neuro physiologic 

takes time to get control over lips and tongue 

 

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can a baby at birth can a baby differentiate speech production?
Definition
yes
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at ______ months old a baby can tell what language their parents speak
Definition
6 months
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what does an infant's ability to differentiate among the world's speech sound contrasts decrease as the child grows?
Definition

focus on one language - losse the ability to hear the contrast that are not meaningful in your language

 

u loose ability we do not need 

Term
what is categorical perception?
Definition

how humans perceive stop consonants

can only percieve voice and voiceless - cant hear the progression 

Term
how do we know that infants perceive stop consonants categorically?
Definition
infant sucking rate or heart rate for /p/ and /b/
Term
what are the 5 stages of babbling?
Definition

reflexive

goo

expansion

canonical

variegated  

Term
why is final consant deletion a developmental phonological process while initial consonant deletion is non developmental?
Definition
the cononical CV is the building block of speech
Term
why is fronting a developmental phonological process while backing is non-developmental?
Definition

alvelor 

because of ease of articulation 

 

Term
what effect does a tracheotomy have on speech development during first year of life?
Definition

delays it temporarily

babbling plays an important role

Term
indentify factors in infancy that are critical to language acquisition?
Definition

intersubjectivity 

joint attention

intentionality 

attending to faces and voices 

hearing 

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differentiate between simultaneous and sequential bilingualism?
Definition

simultaneous - english and spanish at same time

sequential - one as first language and then one later

Term
are some languages more difficult than others for a child to acquire as a first language?
Definition
false
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identify a way in which the babbling of babies who are deaf differs from the babbling of babies with normal hearing?
Definition
both babble but deaf babies dont reach mile stones like hearing children do
Term
which occurs earlier: first signs or first words? why?
Definition

first signs

first 50 signs get reached before first 50 words

motor control over limbs is greater earlier than motor over articulators

Term
how do clinicans measure language development in infants?
Definition

-observe interactions between parents and children 

- questionaire to parents

 

 

Term
what is the scale used to measure fucntioning with infants?
Definition
McAuthor scale
Term
what is voice onset time?
Definition

on the audiogram

release of consonant to the onset of phonation 

Term
differentiate between perceptual and conceptual categoriation?
Definition

perceptual - group items by shared perceptual attributes (cats and dogs/ furniture)

conceptual - by their shared funciton and use 

(a ball rolls/ a dog barks)

Term
who won the world series in 1968?
Definition
detroit tigers
Term
where was the summer olympics held in 1968
Definition
mexico city
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what was the record long jump in 1968
Definition
29 ft 2 inches
Term
who won the long jump in 1968?
Definition
bob beamon
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