PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Natural Language, Behaviorism, 6 Years
3 Dec 2018
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Sensitive to the state of the receiver: an understanding of the mental states of others, precursors to language. An intricate system of sounds or gestured symbols that people use to communicate with each other: natural language: language acquired without intentional effort, nearly all children acquire a language in this way, animals do not acquire language. These signs get more complex with age, but they do not show the features of language (e. g. , complex syntax: examples of full and independent languages developing in deaf communities. For example, in nicaragua in the 1970s, people who were deaf came from all over the country to a newly formed school for the deaf. Played full-term fetuses, recordings of their mother reading a poem or a stranger reading a poem. Changes in heartbeat indicated that they could tell the: developmental milestones difference, understanding what other people, they look at how long the baby looks in that direction, at 5 months.
