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10 Cards in this Set
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Eye Movement
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Measures attention
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What is Reading Ability measured by?
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Accuracy, fluency and comprehension
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Regular Word
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Is said as it is spelt
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Irregular Word
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Not said the way it is spelt
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Evidence for Whorfian Hypothesis
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Robertson (2000) - the words available for colours affect memory of focal colours
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Spoken v Written Language
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1) Written words are separate
2) Less memory load when written 3) No prosodic cues in written language 4) Punctuation marks |
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Lexical Decision Task
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Deciding whether a string of letters forms a word
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Naming Task
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Saying a printed word as rapidly as possible
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The Whorfian Hypothesis
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Language influences thinking - we are in a contract to use language to speak, and thus codify it using our minds
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Whorfian: Strong/Weak/Weakest
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Thinking/Perception/Memory
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