PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nonverbal Communication, Fast Mapping, Critical Period

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

B. f. skinner argued that children imitate the utterances of their parents. Skinner suggests that children receive differential reinforcement for speech sounds. Chomsky argued that language acquisition appears to be universal across culture (could not be accounted for by learning) Critical periods assume that an organism must develop a function w/in a limited time frame or it will not develop at all. Children easily learn second languages, adults have great difficulty. Isolated children have language impairments: genie: was isolated as a child and was unable to learn complex language as an adolescent. Example: blind folded cats: blind if shut for first 4 months. Problem solving: problem solving refers to the process by which we transforms one situation into another to meet a goal, problems vary by definition. Well-defined versus ill-defined: strategies of problem solving: Algorithms are systematic procedures that will produce a solution to a problem. Hypothesis testing: make an educated guess about a problem; then test it.