Psycholinguistics Extra Notes
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Methods used with older children and adolescents: tests of language compregension
Making inferences
Jack went to a Mexican restaurant. He left without giving a tip. Jack didn’t leave atip because:
The restaurant close when he arrived.
He only had enough money to pay for his meal
He wasn’t satisfied with the service
Methods used with older children and adolescents
Receptive vocabulary : Peabody picture vocabulary test:
Fourth edition (PPCT -4)
Expressive Vocabulary: Wechsler Preschool and primary scale of intelligence, Wechsler intelligence scale for children
Prelinguistic Communication
Infant was read a story while still in the womb in utero and then a few days after being born they were read another story and then the same story and they were shown to be able to distinct between the two different stories.
Biggest debate about what the infants could tell the difference between and what the retained from the first story. Eg-> sound, melody, context, etc.
Motherese:
“baby talk”, motherese because it is mostly used by mothers, but also used by fathers.
Proven that babies prefer this over regular speech; this may be because 1) you can express emotions more exaggeratedly, really has the ability to capture the infants attention, actually helps them to differentiate words within the language. When introducing a new word, mothers usually tend to use motherese at first.
Prelinguistic Communication: Gestures:
Pointing: two reasons:
Request (imperative gestures) : asking for something
Assertions (declarative gestures): bring attention to something, just really want to point something out to someone to be able to share the moment with someone.
Pointing is more about the theory of mind
Researchers have done experiments where when infants point at something to share the moment with a parent the parent is directed to look at the infant but never the actual object that the infant is point to or at; this has proven to upset
Methods used with older children and adolescents: tests of language compregension
Making inferences
Jack went to a Mexican restaurant. He left without giving a tip. Jack didn’t leave atip because:
The restaurant close when he arrived.
He only had enough money to pay for his meal
He wasn’t satisfied with the service
Methods used with older children and adolescents
Receptive vocabulary : Peabody picture vocabulary test:
Fourth edition (PPCT -4)
Expressive Vocabulary: Wechsler Preschool and primary scale of intelligence, Wechsler intelligence scale for children
Prelinguistic Communication
Infant was read a story while still in the womb in utero and then a few days after being born they were read another story and then the same story and they were shown to be able to distinct between the two different stories.
Biggest debate about what the infants could tell the difference between and what the retained from the first story. Eg-> sound, melody, context, etc.
Motherese:
“baby talk”, motherese because it is mostly used by mothers, but also used by fathers.
Proven that babies prefer this over regular speech; this may be because 1) you can express emotions more exaggeratedly, really has the ability to capture the infants attention, actually helps them to differentiate words within the language. When introducing a new word, mothers usually tend to use motherese at first.
Prelinguistic Communication: Gestures:
Pointing: two reasons:
Request (imperative gestures) : asking for something
Assertions (declarative gestures): bring attention to something, just really want to point something out to someone to be able to share the moment with someone.
Pointing is more about the theory of mind
Researchers have done experiments where when infants point at something to share the moment with a parent the parent is directed to look at the infant but never the actual object that the infant is point to or at; this has proven to upset