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dementia
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a clinical condition in which the individual loses cognitive abilities and functioning to the degree in which it impedes normal activity and social relationships
**Alzheimer is most common form of dementia |
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symptoms of dementia/Alzheimer's:
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1. Loss of memory for recent events and familiar tasks
2. Changes in cognitive functioning ultimately leading to a change in personality 3. Loss of ability to perform even most simple tasks |
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Aphasia
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loss of ability to use language
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Apraxia
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loss of ability to carry out body movements
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agnosia
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loss of ability to recognize familiar objects/people
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Causes of Alzheimer's
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- formation of plaques or tangles in areas of the brain controlling memory or vital cognitive functioning
-- Diagnosis usually done by exclusion because no one specific indicator. Historically done though autopsy for tangles/plaques central to the disease |
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language
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system of symbols, sounds, meanings and rules of combination that allow for communication between humans.
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who had the ideas of linguistic relativity, that one's language determines one's thoughts?
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Benjamin Whorf
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phonemes:
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smallest units of sounds which can be distinguished; change on sound can alter meaning
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morphemes
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smallest unit of meaning in a language; phrases made up of morphemes. ex) unladylike contains 3 morphemes
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semantics
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the study of the MEANING of words/combos/sentences
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syntax
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the structure of a language; underlying rules of order/function
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Gleason study
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language rules are generative (take rules and apply to novel concepts)
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Overregularizations
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grammatical rules incorrectly generalized to "exception" cases
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who was responsible for the language acquistion device?
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Chomsky
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Language acquistion device
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humans possess an inborn language mechanism
-hard-wired to sort input from 20-80 phonemes |
