PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Babbling, Language Processing In The Brain, Linguistic Determinism
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A would be a letter with 3 different phonies. Grammar: semantics, syntax: rules for how to order words in a sentence (the friendly boy vs the boy friendly) Milestones in language development: receptive language (by about 4 months, productive language. Two word stage (noun, verb, and in combinations) (cat sleep) Psychological test: a standard measure of a sample of behaviour (standardized) 2 types: personality tests, mental ability tests: Aptitude tests (also measure potential and designed to predict ability to learn a new skill) Achievement tests: tests that measure previous learning (uni tests/other school tests) Intelligence is mental potential to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. Galton: iq and intelligence is related to sensory tests. Way to measure mental ability : recall, reasoning, imagining. Made a distinction between chronological and mental age. Chronological age: how long you have been alive.