PSYC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Conversion Disorder, Thalidomide, Mesoderm

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

Document Summary

Sequence of language development: crying: when they are born and for the first two months of life, infants are limited mostly to crying as their sole means of verbal communication, cooing: sometime around the ages of eight to ten weeks, infants begin, babbling: occurs around seven months of age with some variability when cooing (making their first speech like sounds). infants begin to mix consonant and vowel sounds (mama or dada). Common mistakes while learning: tell us the child is beginning to understand and apply meaning to words: overextend: generalize known words to a wider variety of contexts than is, underextend: limit context for generalized words to a certain specific appropriate for those words (calling every man dada). meaning (calling their ball ball but not recognizing any other balls by that name), overgeneralization: infants are surrounded by many objects and words and may overgeneralize the use of the word and apply it to things not relevant (saying dada when hungry)