PSYA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dyslexia, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Deep Structure And Surface Structure

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: John Bassili

Document Summary

according to chomsky, newly formed sentences are represented in the brain in terms of their meaning, which he called their deep structure. developmental dyslexia appears to be caused by abnormal development of parts of the left hemisphere. hansel has difficulty reading words with irregular spelling (such as yacht). a specific deficit in reading ability that is caused by brain damage occurring after a person has already learned how to read is called acquired dyslexia. The two-word stage of language acquisition involves children combining words creatively. a unique string of phonemes that an infant makes is called a protoword. Ian and michaela have a pet bird named butters and a pet cat named truffles. Truffles at daycare todayand butters in the park. Michaela is probably a child who is making an overextension error. The branch of psychology that studies verbal behavior is called psycholinguistics. agrammatism often results from damage to broca"s area.