Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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How many morphemes in "crosswords": two - "crossword" and "s, crossword is the root word, it is one meaningful unit. Isolated children - maybe: genie discovered at 14 - no, isolated for too long and critical period missed, dominique discovered at 5 - yes. Isabelle discovered at 6 - yes: no models - maybe, deaf kids with hearing parents who do not sign, kids develop own signs with rudimentary syntax, other animals - no, basics only, no real syntax, no propositional thought. Seems unlikely given data on wild and isolated children. Critical period: even with "innate" abilities, experience may be critical, 3 months to early teens. Thought and language: a thought is a directed thinking, thought and language are closely related, thought is like "inner speech, thought is best described in abstract, logical terms. Concepts and propositions: concepts: categories or collections of related elements (ex. Paris, london: propositions: a statement about concepts, may be true or false (ex.