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[Text and Language Exercise]

I hate text messaging! I especially hate it when students substitute text message lingo for whole words in test answers. In my point of view: If a student does not take the time to write out what needs to be said, then I should not take the time to figure out what s/he wrote so as to evaluate their writing. What is interesting though: Human language evolved to allow efficient communication of complex ideas; hence, text message abbreviations may be one very annoying step in that evolutionary direction!

Okay, enough of my rant. This assignment will have you translate text message lingo into Standard English and translate Standard English into text message lingo. For each example below, type what you think the translation (conversion) should be for each given phrase. (Hint: Each example is related to psychology.) Some of the Standard English words and phrases have actual text message lingo and some will not, but if the lingo exists, it should be used.

I am looking for how well you thought about your answer, not so much about the accuracy of your answers (through that will be taken into account). Don’t just make stuff up, try to translate the lingo accurately, and try to figure out an efficient way to translate the Standard English via texting.

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Text Message Lingo to Standard English
No.	Text Message Phrase	Standard English Conversion
1.	wyt n grey m@r adlib d brain
2.	pavlov discovAd claSical cndshng W/ :)~ K9s
3.	most studnts tnk psychology S ll bout craZ ppl
4.	d serial pos effct separates S/T mem: frm L/Term mem:
5.	a shrink S a MD hu treats mentaly ill ppl
6.	d mgic * 7 + or - 2 refers 2 hw mch info short term mem: cn hld
7.	consciousness S yr inner st8 n feelins A3
8.	420 n oder drgs wl alter fizikL st8
9.	der r mnE areas of fsyological rsrch, bt ea aims 2 Xpln behavr
10.	lang evolvd 2 convey complX ideas esily, bt f uv 2 figa ot w@ a tx sEz, itz nt eficent

 

Standard English to Text Message Lingo
No.	Standard English Phrase	Text Message Conversion
1.	Psychology is the study of the human mind and human behavior.
2.	Attention can be studied with the dichotic listening task.
3.	Freud believed that unresolved conflict between the conscious and unconscious lead to psychological problems.
4.	Wilhelm Wundt founded psychology in 1879 at the university of Leipzig.
5.	People are less likely to help someone in trouble if there are others around.
6.	Sensory memory is brief, raw and large.
7.	Intelligence can be defined globally as something that affects everything we do.
8.	Changing a single verb in a sentence can alter a person’s memory for an event.
9.	Visual illusions are caused by a depth cue causing a person to see an image differently.
10.	The thalami like relay stations in the brain that send sensory information to the cortex.

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