PY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: List Of Memory Biases, Memory Span, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 101
• Professor: racheldelacy

Document Summary

Morphemes: smallest language units that have meaning including suffixes and prefixes. Phonemes: basic sounds of speech, making them building block of language; letters. Syntax: rules of speaking, without syntax our communication would fall apart. Aphasia: language disorder that results in deficits in language comprehension and production. Common mistakes: overgeneralizations: as children begin to use language in more sophisticated ways they overapply grammar rules they learn, telegraphic speech: tendency for toddlers to speak using rudimentary sentences that are missing words and grammatical markings. Learning: a relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience. Unconditioned stimulus: stimulus that elicits a response without any prior learning (food) Unconditioned response: response that does not have to be learned (salivating) Conditioned stimulus: stimulus that elicits a response only after learning has taken place (bell) Conditioned response: response that has been learned (salivate: little albert: when he reached for a white rat there was a loud banging noise and he would cry.