Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Verbal Behavior, Broccoli, Habituation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Adam Cohen

Document Summary

Outline - last time: language, speech perception, black slate theory, problems for black slate theory, lad theory, domain-speci city, rule-use, pattern of development, necessity of language input, phonemic categorization, perceptual narrowing. Ba a b r o a p s a d e z i r o g e a c t. 20 40 60 80: method, habituation --> sucking response (eimas et al. 1971: habituate to pa , infants reinterested in ba sound, therefore they can distinguish between these two sounds. Selective discrimination of speech sounds (werker, 1981: conditioned head turn procedure (learn to turn their head to a particular sound, procedure --> 6-12 mo, perceptual narrowing to non-native speech sounds. Intention concept: dumbbell study (meltzoff, 1995, q: do infants blindly imitate or do they infer intention, method: 18 mo, see a failed act in both conditions. Human machine control: conclusion: infants inferring intention, not merely imitating. Lecture 8 s e i t r a m.