PSY 130 EXAM 2 2025/2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100%
PASS
-categorizing speech sounds: when do adults generally detect the difference
between PA and BA?
-can infants do this?
-is this unique to humans? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-30 msec
-yes
-no: all mammalian animals can
what sound do Japanese people cannot detect the differences- but English speaking
people can? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔R an L
what age can infants hear all of sounds from all of the world's languages? at what
age can they only hear their own language? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔6-8 months: hear
everything
10-12: only native language
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, categorical perception in language: from birth: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔from birth, infants
attend to sound differences that signal different categories to sound
-after a while, they learn to ignore differences that are irrelevant to sound
categories
how do infants identify words? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔distributed probabilities:
"this sound usually follows this sound"..
what do you need to learn a language? (1-3) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) listen: infant
directed speech
2) find right sounds: categorize sounds
3) find words: distributed probabilities
psychological reasoning:
-big bang theory clip
-false belief tasks
-anticipating looking task
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100%
PASS
-categorizing speech sounds: when do adults generally detect the difference
between PA and BA?
-can infants do this?
-is this unique to humans? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-30 msec
-yes
-no: all mammalian animals can
what sound do Japanese people cannot detect the differences- but English speaking
people can? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔R an L
what age can infants hear all of sounds from all of the world's languages? at what
age can they only hear their own language? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔6-8 months: hear
everything
10-12: only native language
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 1
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, categorical perception in language: from birth: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔from birth, infants
attend to sound differences that signal different categories to sound
-after a while, they learn to ignore differences that are irrelevant to sound
categories
how do infants identify words? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔distributed probabilities:
"this sound usually follows this sound"..
what do you need to learn a language? (1-3) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) listen: infant
directed speech
2) find right sounds: categorize sounds
3) find words: distributed probabilities
psychological reasoning:
-big bang theory clip
-false belief tasks
-anticipating looking task
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 2
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
