AP Psychology - Language and Cognition Flashcards
Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 9181306947 | language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. |  | 0 |
| 9181306948 | phoneme | in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit. |  | 1 |
| 9181306949 | morpheme | in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix). |  | 2 |
| 9181306950 | grammar | in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others. |  | 3 |
| 9181306951 | semantics | the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning. |  | 4 |
| 9181306952 | syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language. |  | 5 |
| 9181306953 | babbling stage | babies spontaneously uttering a variety of words, such as ah-goo |  | 6 |
| 9181306954 | one-word stage | the stage in which children speak mainly in single words | | 7 |
| 9181306955 | two-word stage | they start uttering two word sentences | | 8 |
| 9181306956 | telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram—"go car"—using mostly nouns and verbs. |  | 9 |
| 9181306957 | linguistic determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think. |  | 10 |