PSY 357 Final || with Complete Solution.
some of the basic auditory abilities of fetuses in the womb correct answers recognize mother's
voice vs. stranger
prosody of own lang.
identify the types of methods by which the language processing abilities of fetuses have been
investigated correct answers (sucking, head turns, looking times)
-Baby prosody
-Voice frequencies (rhythms of language)
to identify the age at which Mehler and colleagues (1988) showed that infants can distinguish
intonational contours in their maternal language (such as French) and those in another language
(such as Russian) correct answers -4-day olds understand prosody (rhythm and pitch)
Mehler: Implications correct answers Evidence that fetuses are learning the basic contours of
language (sucked MORE for 2nd language)
Given a list of babies of different languages and ages, be able to apply findings from phoneme
discrimination abilities to choose the baby that would or would not be able to detect differences
between certain phonemes of a given language. correct answers 1st year: any 2 phonemes
discrimination
-2 versions of "k"
-English baby <1 CANT
Zulu Click consonants correct answers At any age they CAN hear difference between clicks- our
perceptual system never adjusted to them like we did for clicks
Be able to identify the main way Jen Saffran and colleagues have proposed by which infants
become able to break up long, unbroken strings of speech into meaningful units. correct answers
Babies listen longer to NOVEL "words" (new ones) than to old ones
, -sparks curiosity
-Babies pick up STATISTICAL REGULARITIES automatically
Cooing correct answers 6-8 weeks)
-vowel sound over & over
Vegetative Sounds correct answers 0-6 weeks
Laughter correct answers 16 weeks
Vocal Play correct answers 16 weeks- 6 mos.
Single-word utterances correct answers 10-18 mos.
Two-word utternaces correct answers 18 mos
Full sentences correct answers 2years and 6 mos.
Variegated babbling correct answers 11 months
-syllable strings of varying consonants and vowels
"Badokabodabo"
Reduplicated babbling correct answers 6 months (-10 mos.)
-repeating a consonant-vowel sequence
(Nanananana or Dadadaadda)
telegraphic speech correct answers 2 years
some of the basic auditory abilities of fetuses in the womb correct answers recognize mother's
voice vs. stranger
prosody of own lang.
identify the types of methods by which the language processing abilities of fetuses have been
investigated correct answers (sucking, head turns, looking times)
-Baby prosody
-Voice frequencies (rhythms of language)
to identify the age at which Mehler and colleagues (1988) showed that infants can distinguish
intonational contours in their maternal language (such as French) and those in another language
(such as Russian) correct answers -4-day olds understand prosody (rhythm and pitch)
Mehler: Implications correct answers Evidence that fetuses are learning the basic contours of
language (sucked MORE for 2nd language)
Given a list of babies of different languages and ages, be able to apply findings from phoneme
discrimination abilities to choose the baby that would or would not be able to detect differences
between certain phonemes of a given language. correct answers 1st year: any 2 phonemes
discrimination
-2 versions of "k"
-English baby <1 CANT
Zulu Click consonants correct answers At any age they CAN hear difference between clicks- our
perceptual system never adjusted to them like we did for clicks
Be able to identify the main way Jen Saffran and colleagues have proposed by which infants
become able to break up long, unbroken strings of speech into meaningful units. correct answers
Babies listen longer to NOVEL "words" (new ones) than to old ones
, -sparks curiosity
-Babies pick up STATISTICAL REGULARITIES automatically
Cooing correct answers 6-8 weeks)
-vowel sound over & over
Vegetative Sounds correct answers 0-6 weeks
Laughter correct answers 16 weeks
Vocal Play correct answers 16 weeks- 6 mos.
Single-word utterances correct answers 10-18 mos.
Two-word utternaces correct answers 18 mos
Full sentences correct answers 2years and 6 mos.
Variegated babbling correct answers 11 months
-syllable strings of varying consonants and vowels
"Badokabodabo"
Reduplicated babbling correct answers 6 months (-10 mos.)
-repeating a consonant-vowel sequence
(Nanananana or Dadadaadda)
telegraphic speech correct answers 2 years
