Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Occipital Lobe, Frontal Lobe, Aphasia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- Dehoog

Document Summary

Language development: language turning thoughts into words, properties of language, symbolic, semantic, generative, structured, displacement. Hierarchical structure of language: phonemes smallest speech units, 100 possible, english about 40. Language processing: bottom-up processing recognizing sounds and letters that combine to form words and sentences (ex. O(cid:272)ial rules for e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple thi(cid:374)gs (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t sa(cid:455) i(cid:374) (cid:272)hur(cid:272)h(cid:895: wer(cid:374)i(cid:272)ke"s aphasia inability to comprehend language. In the auditory lobe: hearing and language localized, occipital lobe reading/seeing words, frontal lobe generating words, bro(cid:272)a"s aphasia impaired ability to produce language, motor cortex speaking words. Theories of language acquisition: behaviorist (skinner, empiricist/environment crucially important, positive reinforcement makes kids learn and observational learning, learning of specific verbal responses, nativist (chomsky, biologically equipped to learn rules of language, language acquisition device (lad) Interactionist both innate and learned aspects: cognitive theory language development is a component of more general cognitive development, social communication theories emphasize the function of language and the social context in which language occurs.