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PSYCH10 Paquette-Smith UCLA Final Questions With 100% Correct Answers Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development - answerSensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operations sensorimotor stage - answerin Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities. develop sense of object permanence preoperational stage - answerin Piaget's theory, the stage (from abou...

Linguistic Semantics correct answers The study of the meaning of language Pragmatics correct answers The study of language in contexts Syntax correct answers The study of the structure of language focusing on how grammatically correct statements are formed. Orthography correct answers The study of letters and their use in forming sounds or words. Language Acquisition Device correct answers Chomsky believed we have this innate language ability. Noam Chomsky correct answers His work...

Topics 3 and 4 Critical Questions & Answers 2023.Which one of these is a functional theory of language acquisition? constructivist theory behaviorist theory nativist theory - ANSWER Constructivist theory Which one of these theories considers the social aspect of language use? behaviorist theory nativist theory constructivist theory - ANSWER Nativist Theory According to the video 'Piaget's Stage of Development' in Task 4, at what stage of development are children able to engage in ...

Define language, describe the 5 components of language, and explain its relation to communication and speech. - Answer Language- shared code or system for representing concepts through use of symbols and rules that govern how they're combined/ words and how they're combined Speech- producing sounds/ articulation Communication- sending a message from one person to another 5 components of language: · Semantics o Meaning/content · Syntax o Rules for combining words · Morphology o Word...

WGU D167 Psychology Exam Questions and Answers LATEST 2024/2025 (100% Solved) Cognitive Development (Piaget) - Answer Sensorimotor-explores through the senses, gains object permanence Preoperational-can't see other people's point of view (egocentrism) Concrete operational-concept of conservation, logical thinking Formal operational-adult reasoning develops, abstract thinking, metacognition (thinking about thinking) cognitive development stage 1 - Answer Infancy (0-2): Crawl, babble Cogn...

What are the similarities and differences between speech, language, and communication? - Answer What are the three main properties of language and why are these important for language development? - Answer Social Tool: language serves as the code for transmission between people Rule Governed: the arrangement of symbols in a language is non-arbitrary, or language users have share rule systems that allow them to create messages that can be understood by others Generative: language is a produ...

Psych 10 review HEURISTICS - Mental shortcuts that allow us to find a solution more quickly ◦ Use prior knowledge of English to predict which letters go together Means-ends heuristic - Reduce the difference between the current state and the goal state ◦ Divide the big problem into smaller problems, & work from current state to goal state ◦ Can work from biggest-to-smallest sub-problem or from current-to-goal state Analogical thinking - what we do when we use information from o...

Speech - Answer The acoustic production of sounds, involves oral/motor components to create acoustic production - can be completely meaningless (i.e. babbling) Language - Answer The representation of concepts in our minds; a socially shared code/conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and rule-governed combinations of those symbols - can be understood/produced, does not depend on modality Communication - Answer The exchange of information, ideas, ...

Linguistic Semantics correct answers The study of the meaning of language Pragmatics correct answers The study of language in contexts Syntax correct answers The study of the structure of language focusing on how grammatically correct statements are formed. Orthography correct answers The study of letters and their use in forming sounds or words. Language Acquisition Device correct answers Chomsky believed we have this innate language ability. Noam Chomsky correct answers His work...

What is behaviorism? - correct answer a natural science approach to psychology that focuses on the study of environmental influences on observable behavior What makes a person a behavorist? - correct answer -The perspective that people/behaviors/thought patterns can change -observing observable data due to stimuli in the environment without introspection What are the five major behaviorist theories discu...