Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Inhibitory Control Test, Habituation, Mentalization
17 Dec 2013
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Language blank slate theories (3) & problems for it (4), lad theory: domain specificity, rule-use, pattern of development, necessity of language input. If you don"t have the right environment, language acquisition will not proceed normally . The boy played baseball : take the word play", can be broken down (play, ed: the word is made of phonemes, e. g. , the pa sound at the beginning of play. The phonemes pa and ba are identical in most respects, other than the voice onset time. Draw a graph, with voice onset time on the x-axis (in ms) and on the y-axis, % categorized as. Ba or pa , there is a flip between hearing ba or pa at about 30 ms. Experiment (eimes et al. , 1971): method: habituations sucking response time in 1 month olds. (suck more rapidly when they"re excited). They repeatedly presented the baby with a ba sound (voice onset time = 20 ms), they habituate to the sound.
