Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sound Localization, Functional Fixedness, Metacognition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Shelley Cross- Mellor

Document Summary

Differences in brain between people who are good at a second language and people who are not good. Knowledge: little kids are good at learning which phonemes go together and what doesn"t (statistical reasoning) Context: knowing how a phonemes change your mouth shape. Speech segmentation: perceiving speech as a series of separate words, part of the reason why foreign languages seem so fast. Brain overlap: the better you are at speaking the second language, the more overlap there is between. Brain imagery debate: perceptual position (imagery involves same things) vs. propositional position (using language and perception. Lunchin"s water jug problem, 3 jugs of different sizes, combine to get specified aount of water. (b-2a-c) Metacomprehension- knowing what you understand and what you don"t understand. Linguistic relativity hypothesis- evidence against is some cultures that have two words for color, but they can distinguish two different colors just as well as you and i.