PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tabula Rasa, Depth Perception, Prenatal Development
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Experiment: found a shepherd and told him to raise children in the absence of any linguistic input. Thought that children would spontaneously start to speak. Phrygian, so concluded it was the innate original language. Demand effects: when the experimenters know what they want to happen, it skews the experiment in their favor. Take away certain experience to see if development changes. Create visual cliff, where there is glass over a drop. If they develop depth perception, not going to walk over cliff. If they don"t develop depth perception, walk off cliff because don"t recognize the depth. Yes, need to experience their own movement and to see what happens to get depth perception (kitten carousel) Child called genie: victim of severe neglect; didn"t hear language in the first 13 years of her life. Found that there are 2 different parts of language: verbal labeling and rules/grammar. Genie could learn verbal labeling well, but couldn"t grasps the rules/grammar.
