PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Feral Child, Hearing Aid, Neurology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

When/how do we acquire language? learning: the effortful (and imperfect) way with which adults learn an additional language. Acquisition: the effortless way with which children pick up languages indicates that there is a window during which languages can be acquired this is called a sensitive or critical period. Hearing social isolation (the forbidden experiment") feral children? syntax the rules of grammar that govern the arrangement of words into phrases and sentences. English as a second language (1st language does not use inflection): they have three car". Discovered at 13. 5 years learned to produce immature sentences (lacking syntax) Discovered at 6. 5 years she and her mute, brain-damaged mother escaped from silent imprisonment of her grandfather"s house. At 31, a neurologist diagnosed her as deaf. With hearing aids and therapy: inept doctors misdiagnosed her as retarded. Iq at a 10-year-old level knows 2000 words independent, and successful. Deafness isolated from: sign language, other deaf people, etc.