HDFS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Speech Segmentation, 18 Months, Cognitive Development
18 Dec 2018
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Interactionist view emphasizes that both biology and experience contribute to language development. Interaction of biology and experience can be seen in variations in language acquisition. Family in a network of others: care providers, schools, neighborhoods. The final product is relatively enduring and focused in nature. John bowlby: attachment and loss, mary ainsworth. Ethology: basic assumptions: behavior has adaptive value if it enhances the protection of individual animals, and therefore the survival of the. Looks at the survival value of a behavior species. Those behaviors which are important for the protection and survival of the species are genetically coded and driven by inborn maturational forces. Therefore, every member of the species will be characterized by the same basic behaviors: each species has a set of important signals which are prepotent and meaningful to it for communication: signed stimuli. The irm then triggers a fixed action pattern (fap). There is absolutely no choice involved: ss irm fap adaptation, red-spined sticklebacks, small fish.
