PSYC 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Beagle, Associationism, Habituation
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Categorical perception: babies categorically discriminate all phonemes. The high-amplitude sucking paradigm: suck more as they learn speech, when they get bored hearing the same sound they suck less. 14-month babies don"t notice the switch between similar-sounding words. Info that is committed to long-term memory about the sound and meaning properties of words, and certain constraints on their syntactic combination. How do children learn words: the gavagai problem: how do you know what they are pointing at, constraints on learning. The whole object constraint: assume word refers to whole object. : babies look longer at the whole object. The mutual exclusivity assumption: assume words don"t refer to something you already have a word for. Subordinate: beagle [preschoolers prefer: basic-level referents: 3 times leads to a generalization [dogs, interpreting words: the speaker"s referential intentions. The idea that people have different mental states and to understand what someone is thinking about is not necessarily what you are thinking as well: baldwin"s research.
