LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT TEST 2 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025/2026

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT TEST 2
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2025/2026




Language acquisition device (LAD) - ANS Chomsky's term for the home of language rules in
the brain


Schemes - ANS mental representations that underlies ability to organize


Assimilation - ANS use of existing schemes to incorporate external stimuli
-the way an organism continually integrates new information into what you already know


Accomodation - ANS transformation process in response to external stimuli that does not
already fit into any available scheme and therefore cannot be assimilated


Equilibrium - ANS state of cognitive balance between incoming stimuli and organism's
cognitive scheme


Neuroscience - ANS the study of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology


Neuroanatomy - ANS structure of the nervous system, where everything is located


Neurophysiology - ANS how the brain function


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, Neurolinguistics - ANS the study of neuroanatomy, physiology, and biochemistry of language


Neuron - ANS nerve cell; the most basic unit of the nervous system


Do neurons touch? - ANS never


Nerve - ANS collection of neurons
-has a cell body, axon, and dendrites


Axon - ANS communicates messages away from the cell body


dendrites - ANS receives messages and goes towards the neuron


synapse - ANS the space between neurons


how do neurons communicate? - ANS electrophysically


Afferent - ANS TOWARD the brain


Efferent - ANS AWAY from the brain


CNS is encased in - ANS bone and meninges


Job of the brainstem - ANS regulates involuntary reactions


Job of the central nervous system - ANS monitors the body's state by exchanging information
from senses/organs to other organs/muscles

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