PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Functional Fixedness, Motor Cortex, Availability Heuristic
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Human can connect unrelated information to form new ideas language to help them build representations and connections between abstract concepts and concrete. 9. 2 the development of language tonal language detecting pitch difference than intonation language. Grammar: systematic rules of a language ( words, tense, syntax) Syntax: structure and order of words in language. Birth 3 months (happy cooling noise in response to caretaker"s game) 7-18 months (stop reaching for a toy after father says no") 8-10 months understand some word, eg: no mommy,can simple request. 2-3 years ( asking where her bear is hiding, responds with under the couch ) 4-5 years (recites mary has a little lamb from memory) 9. 2. 1. 1 nurture: the role of environmental factors on behavior. Speech as a verbal behavior, applied theories of operant conditioning to children"s language acquisition. Be strengthened or weakened based on the consequences of their environments. 9. 2. 1. 2 nature: the role of genetic factor on behavior.
