PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vocal Tract, Hominidae, Francine Patterson
7 Nov 2016
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Psychological accounting heuristic (for assessing values): not all s are the same. Anchoring heuristic : estimating an amount by adjusting from a (sometimes arbitrary ) reference point. You have particular, predictable biases in your thinking. But they lead to particular, predictable errors. Specialized vocal tract can produce many distinct sounds, and rapidly. Several attempts to teach other great apes language. Koko (gorilla trained in sign language by penny patterson) Compare koko to humans" predisposition for language . Spontaneous emergence of sign language among nicaraguan deaf kids. Video: a deaf woman has no name, established her own language. Dear snuffles, hope you"re okay, the first week back here"s been terrible, i"m really glad it"s the weekend. We"ve got a new defense against the dark arts teacher, How to wreck a nice beach top down processing. The cat is on the mat- real meaning: open the door. Coining new terms watergate, deflategate, winergate. The tangram task conversation experiments .
