PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Babbling, Language Acquisition, Behaviorism
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Preparation for language learning preparation for language learning: includes babbling stage. Children typically produce first words at about 1 year of age about 12 months (but lots of variability in exact age) first 50 or so words same everywhere; mostly nouns. The problem of word learning: too many meanings sometimes called the gavagai problem. Word could be due to a lot of different factors in the environment ex: the word cow" pointing to a cow; could refer to concept/category individual part color/pattern state of mind. Solving the gavagai" problem research suggest that children"s word learning is biased; children must have some initial assumptions about what words are likely to mean. Whole object assumption: assume word is a label for a whole object children also use social cues to infer what a speaker means. Mutual exclusivity assumption: assume that objects have only one label. Language acquisition: early behaviorist / learning theories behaviorist scholars (ex.
