PSYC 1001 Lecture 7: DETAILED PDF LEC NOTES - CARLETON UNI - ROBIN LANGERAK

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Robin Langerak

Document Summary

Chapter preview: chapter 8 contains three main sections. 1: problem solving, decision making, learning outcomes, how thought is facilitated by language. Recent findings suggest that the critical period for language may not be set in stone: *note: genie"s brain had numerous abnormalities, not just language centers. Separate testing days: in the end, being bilingual may be good for your brain, but the most notable benefits are career and travel based. Psychology psyc 1001-b: dolphins in particular have demonstrated superior language potential, each dolphin has their own name (or call, dolphins appear to understand syntax and abstraction, https://youtu. be/jz3sqste5ta. Etc: it"s useful to think of the different neighbourhoods (phono, ortho, semantic) overlapping behind all words, notice we"ve already discussed semantic neighbourhoods without realizing it, another way to think about a semantic neighbourhood is as a semantic network. What is problem solving: in the thompson family, there are five brothers, and each brother has one sister.