PSYC 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chronotropic, Steven Pinker, Noam Chomsky

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 310
• Professor: Stella Lourenco

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You"re not really able to alter the act of walking with experience. You"re not changing the nature of walking even if you can speed up the progress of the ability. Inborn or hard-wired": biology (or genetics) Chicks follow this phenomenon called imprinting (latching onto the first thing they see, usually their mother, but can imprint on anything) Chicks placed in cage with triangle dangling from center. You know its imprinted on that, then you go give them a blue triangle the two blue shapes. Findings if the chick understood the occlusion, then it would follow the blue triangle. Found that they do follow the blue triangle. The problematic part about testing on chicks is the fact that they develop very different from human babies. Elman, bates, johnson, karmiloff-smith, parisi, & plunkett (1996): rethinking innateness: a connectionist perspective on development. Different types of constraints: representational, chronotropic, architectural. Representational constraints: knowledge (representation) is innate the nature of objects (e. g. occlusion, solidity, etc.