PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Skills, Parenting Styles, Domineering

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2500
• Professor: Anne Bowker

Document Summary

Language: a conventional system of symbols representing concepts and rules of governing the symbols. Communication: the process of exchanging information between organisms. Raised in a home" setting by the kelloggs, at the same time as raising their child. Did not acquire any language: viki. Learned american sign language: nim chimsky. Alex the parrot can learn words as well. Can tell number of objects on a tray and what colour they are. Linguistic knowledge: generative, rule-governed (requires rules, tacit (able to use language correctly, automatic, hard to forget, independent of iq. Phonological development: crying, cooing (2 months vowel like sounds, ex. Ahhh : babbling (6 months speech like sounds, but no meaning, patterned speech (8-12 months, socio-communicative. 1 or 2 syllables: names of people, objects, action words, the labeling task, the packaging task (using labels correctly, the networking task (how duck fits into the big picture of things, knowing it"s another animal) Rules for using language in a social context.