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Everyday Memory (Chapter 8) Autobiographical memory Transition points Reminiscence Bump Self-image Theory Cognitive Theory Cultural Life Script Theory Role of emotion in memory Flashbulb memories- more confident, not more accurate Constructive nature of memory Source Monitoring Cryptoamnesia Schema...

Everyday Memory (Chapter 8) Autobiographical memory Transition points Reminiscence Bump Self-image Theory Cognitive Theory Cultural Life Script Theory Role of emotion in memory Flashbulb memories- more confident, not more accurate Constructive nature of memory Source Monitoring Cryptoamnesia Schemas and scripts Retroactive interference Misleading post-event information False memories Knowledge Chapter 9 Definitional approach Prototype approach Exemplar approach Why are categories important? Hierarchy of categorization Super-ordinate level Basic level Sub-ordinate level Individual Role of experience in categorization Semantic Networks Nodes Cognitive economy Lexical decision task Spreading activation Language Chapter 11 (mostly not from the book) Classical vs behaviorist vs cognitive view of language Generative aspect of language Dynamic aspect of language Perception and production of language Levels of analysis: Phoneme Morpheme Words Phrases Sentences Discourse What makes human speech perception unique? Categorical perception vs continuous perception Why isn’t language a stream of phonemes? Coarticulation Dialects and phonemes McGurk Effect Phonemic restoration effect Hierarchical models Syntax and grammar Word-chain grammar Chomsky’s colorless green ideas sleep furiously- never heard before Surface vs Deep structure Language Acquisition Device Specialized language production “Spiders spin spider webs because they have spider brains” Pinker Critical periods Stages of speech production: Cooing Babbling One-word utterances Two-word utterances Basic adult sentence structure Phoneme specialization at babbling stage Over generalization Perception before production Wug study Bilingualism- Single vs dual system hypothesis Pidgins and creoles Children generating language: ISN- Nicaraguan school children Simon Language and intelligence as dissociable Neuropsychology- verbal vs non-verbal IQ Double dissociation in language and intelligence Hydrocephalus and William’s Syndrome Selective Language Impairment Aphasia- Wernicke’s and Broca’s only Hemispheric specialization for language Brain lesions left hemisphere