PSYC 340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Connectionism, Dyslexia, Attractor

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 340
• Professor: Debra Ann Titone

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Logographic stage: the child recognizes individual words by particular salient characteristics of the word. Alphabetic stage: the child learns to read by grapheme-phoneme correspondences. Orthographic stage: the child has acquired an adult like reading system. Pre-alphabetic stage: children know little about letter sound correspondences. Partial alphabetic reading phase: use their partial knowledge of letter names and sounds to form partial correspondences between spellings and pronunciations. Full alphabetic phase: complete connections are made between letters and sounds. Consolidated alphabetic phase: the child reads like an adult. Phonological awareness: the awareness of the sounds of a word. Epilinguistic knowledge: implicit knowledge about our language processes that is used unconsciously. Metalinguistic knowledge: explicit knowledge about our language processes of which we are aware and can report and which we can make deliberate use. English children pay more attention to the rime of a word. Children could only read words by analogy in natural reading if they already possessed grapheme-phoneme recoding skills.