Deck 10: Schooling: Reading and Number

Question 1

Languages differ in the units of sound that are represented by print, this is a difference in psycholinguistic "___ size".

Answer 1

grain

Question 2

"___ transparency" refers to the consistency in a language's spelling-sound correspondence.

Answer 2

Orthographic

Question 3

___ awareness refers to the ability to detect and manipulate the component sounds that comprise words, at different grain sizes.

Answer 3

Phonological

Question 4

Prosodic cues (changes in pitch, duration, and stress) carry information about word ___ and the ordering of sounds in words.

Question 5

When learning English or other languages, children usually become aware of ___ onsets, and rimes before learning to read.

Question 6

The concept of a phoneme is an ___ from the physical stimulus.

Question 7

___ are similar but non-identical sounds that the brain groups together as sounding the same.

Question 8

"___ effects are effects due simply to participating in an intervention, arising from generalized motivational and self-esteem effects.

Question 9

Beginning readers across languages are faced with three problems. These are ___, consistency, and the granularity of symbol-to-sound mappings.

Question 10

Children who are relying on grapheme-phoneme recoding strategies generally display the ___ effect and skilled nonword reading.

Question 11

Children with developmental dyslexia typically experience difficulties with tasks testing phonological awareness tasks, phonological short-term memory or rapid ___ naming.

Question 12

Across language, the neural networks for language and reading appear to be ___ lateralized.

Question 13

Shaywitz et al.'s (2002) study found that English children with developmental dyslexia showed ___ in the core brain areas for reading.

Question 14

In Dehaene's "___ code" model, the three codes proposed are a visual code, a linguistic code, and a general number sense.

Question 15

According to Weber's law, the threshold of stimulus discrimination increases with stimulus intensity. This means that our ability to make physical discriminations is ___ sensitive.

Question 16

The symbolic ___ effect describes the effect that adults are slower and less accurate with deciding whether a numeral is larger or smaller than 5 if the number is close to 5, and faster at deciding if the number is far from 5.

Question 17

___ is the fast enumeration of the numerosity of very small sets.

Question 18

The principle of ___ describes the fact that all sets with the same number are qualitatively equivalent.

Question 19

The principle of ___ describes the fact that numbers come in an ordered scale of magnitude.

Question 20

Saxe has proposed that the developmental shift from "prequantitative" counting to "quantitative" counting is mediated by the acquisition of an understanding of one-to-one ___