PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Canter And Gallop, Malnutrition, Heritability
Document Summary
Morphemes (1) smallest unit of language that carries meaning. Phoneme (2) smallest distinctive sound unit in language. The meaning of words and phrases is determined by applying the rules of sematics. Set of rules that we apply to convey meaning through the use of lexicons. Receptive language infant"s ability to understand what is being said to them. Production language infant"s ability to produce words. There is a critical period to learn languages. Chomsky argued that all languages share a basic universal grammar . Said that we have built in predisposition to learn grammar rules, not particular languages. Ability of humans to extract statistical regularities from the world around them to learn about the environment. Sensitive periods: if you don"t learn somethings during sensitive period, it doesn"t exactly set you behind. Critical periods: if you don"t learn a skill during critical period, you have a difficulty mastering it, sort of sets you behind makes it difficult.
