PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Linguistic Determinism, Lewis Terman, Factor Analysis
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Nativist perspective genetic predisposition for language. Purely based on social environment interactions with other humans. Humans have genetic disposition to learn language. But type of language based on early exposure. Only light blue, dark blue, but still blue. Russian diff words for diff shades of blue. Like how we have a word for light red pink . Russian speakers better at distinguishing shades of blue. Left hemisphere most of the time really important for language (for most people) Broca"s area if broca"s is broken then no words will be spoken . Wernicke"s area auditory info and makes sense of it. Language impairment affecting the production and/or comprehension of speech. View from a century ago was extremely negative (would hurt intelligence)! Past 50 years has accumulated much evidence to the contrary, ex. Studies examining the onset of dementia in toronto hospital patients) A representation is anything that stands in for, or corresponds to , something else.
