PSY 130 Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is infant-directed speech? What are its characteristics, and why might parents use it? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Infant-directed speech, in summary, is baby talking and it
characteristics are a higher pitch in tone. Longer range, and smoothed pitched contours. Parents
might use this to grab the baby's attention when talking so that the infant can pick up the word
later down the line.
What is categorical speech perception? Do infants have it? Describe the methods and results of a
study that tested infants' categorical speech perception. - CORRECT ANSWER -
Categorical Perception is the ability to notice a change in sounds in words such as syllables or
changes in lettering in the word. Infants have the capacity to learn all the sound categories. When
habituated to ba dishabituated to pa and they notice a difference between categories but when
dishabituated to a different ba they ignore differences within categories this is tested by sucking
procedures.
Describe the changes in infant babbling that happen during the first year of life. Explain how
babbling is similar and different for deaf and hearing infants. - CORRECT ANSWER -
The first stage of babbling is just a bunch of sounds with no real words produced. The second
stage of babbling is when syllables start to arise first with repetition and then with mixed
syllables. The third and final stage is jargon, in which infants attempt words but only come out as
syllables. deaf babies produced more babbling than hearing infants, deaf infants showed the
same developmental milestones as hearing, so not delayed just doing something different
When do children say their first word? What stage do they enter when they say this word? What
types of words do they say during this stage? Describe one error that children make during this
stage. - CORRECT ANSWER - Infants tend to say their first word around 10 to 15 months
as they enter the 1-word stage. The first words that appear in this stage is your basic words that
repeat syllables such as MAMA or PAPA. The other words are produced after however, the error
that occurs in this stage is that kids use the words they know instead of the correct words to use
such as the word tik tok, they will say watch.
In class, we discussed several examples of how language comprehension often precedes
language production in development. Describe two examples of cases where children
comprehend something before they can produce it. Be specific about what children can
comprehend, how we know this, and how we know that their comprehension precedes their
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is infant-directed speech? What are its characteristics, and why might parents use it? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Infant-directed speech, in summary, is baby talking and it
characteristics are a higher pitch in tone. Longer range, and smoothed pitched contours. Parents
might use this to grab the baby's attention when talking so that the infant can pick up the word
later down the line.
What is categorical speech perception? Do infants have it? Describe the methods and results of a
study that tested infants' categorical speech perception. - CORRECT ANSWER -
Categorical Perception is the ability to notice a change in sounds in words such as syllables or
changes in lettering in the word. Infants have the capacity to learn all the sound categories. When
habituated to ba dishabituated to pa and they notice a difference between categories but when
dishabituated to a different ba they ignore differences within categories this is tested by sucking
procedures.
Describe the changes in infant babbling that happen during the first year of life. Explain how
babbling is similar and different for deaf and hearing infants. - CORRECT ANSWER -
The first stage of babbling is just a bunch of sounds with no real words produced. The second
stage of babbling is when syllables start to arise first with repetition and then with mixed
syllables. The third and final stage is jargon, in which infants attempt words but only come out as
syllables. deaf babies produced more babbling than hearing infants, deaf infants showed the
same developmental milestones as hearing, so not delayed just doing something different
When do children say their first word? What stage do they enter when they say this word? What
types of words do they say during this stage? Describe one error that children make during this
stage. - CORRECT ANSWER - Infants tend to say their first word around 10 to 15 months
as they enter the 1-word stage. The first words that appear in this stage is your basic words that
repeat syllables such as MAMA or PAPA. The other words are produced after however, the error
that occurs in this stage is that kids use the words they know instead of the correct words to use
such as the word tik tok, they will say watch.
In class, we discussed several examples of how language comprehension often precedes
language production in development. Describe two examples of cases where children
comprehend something before they can produce it. Be specific about what children can
comprehend, how we know this, and how we know that their comprehension precedes their
