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Luker The Broca area, part of the left frontal lobe used to control speech muscles. It is said to learn a new language you need to hear and speak it. The Broca area will help Savannah on the spoken part of her Japanese exam. The more Savannah speaks the language, the more it will be encoded in her memory, she also uses the Wernicke area which helps you comprehend the language is the being learned. If not for the Broca area she would not be able to recite the terms that she has learned or her Angular gyrus were damaged she would have difficulties with the spoken portion of the exam. Phonemes are the distinctive sounds in a unit of words. When learning a language you learn to break the word down and read them apart and then you put them together again. But the meanings of words change if you change the phonemes of the word. B.F. Skinner theory that we learn languages by association with sights and sounds, followed by imitation of syntax displayed for use, and the use of reinforcement for when we pronounce words correctly. Savannah uses association when she sees a word and knows how the word is pronounced, the meaning of the word, and then she can associate that word with and English one for example the word Tora in Japanese means Tiger in English. She models the pronunciation of the word by imitating her teacher. Her reinforcements come when Savannah get good grades on her test and quizzes. Chunking the process by which a person organizes material into familiar units it occurs automatically. Savannah may chunk all the words that associate with each other, but she does not realize that she is doing this because her brain does it automatically. So she can encode it easier in to her memory and not have huge amounts of data to encode

DJ Isaacs AP Psychology !st period Mrs.Luker into her short or long term memory. She could use mnemonics to help her chunk and encode. Encoding failure can hinder Savannah form doing go on her exam. When encoding failure happens it occurs when your brain is transferring data form your short term memory to your long term memory. Encoding failure is forgetting, and if that happens Savannah will not remember what she needs for her test. She also has to worry about storage decay. Storage decay can happen anytime between one hour later to 30 days. The critical period for which to learn new languages ends at age 7. Then it becomes extremely difficult to master any language. Savannah is in high school which is way pass the critical period. What also hinders Savannah is that Japanese is not her first language so she will have an accent whenever she is speaking Japanese. Savannahs overconfidence (overconfidence the tendency to be more confident than correct) is another hinder to her success in the class. Savannah may believe that all her answers are correct when in reality they are wrong. She may come in to the test saying I know everything or when she is studying for the test saying I dont need to study that because I already know that.