PSYC20007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Helen Keller, Spoken Word, Onomatopoeia

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC20007
• Professor: All

Document Summary

What"s in a name: helen keller, learned finger language / tapping on hand, pair a repeatedly occurring event with another. Everything had a name, and each new name gave birth to a new thought. " Monkey responses to 3 different alarm calls (seyfarth, cheney & marler, 1980: evidence of predator classification & semantic communication, vervet monkey alarm calls. Eagle snake leopard: monkeys related differently to the different predator, played recordings of alarm calls from a speaker in the bushes and watched the monkeys respond differently. Peirce"s 3 modes of reference: reference: means by which a thing (a sign) brings to mind another thing (the signified) Symbolic learning: learn symbols by recognising iconic forms & symbol-object correlations. Iconic relationships between one instance of a word and another important to establish reliable word recognition: word reference often supplemented by paragon sound of word with iconic gesture.