PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Motor Coordination, Kanzi, Classical Conditioning
3 Feb 2014
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Whorf sapir hypothesis: whorf sapir hypothesis: language influences our thoughts and the way we perceive and experience the world. The structure of language: morpheme: the smallest unit of sound that contains information (or signs), not the absolute smallest units, often a word, but some words contain multiple morphemes, phonemes: constituent sounds when breaking up a morpheme. Syntax and semantics: syntax: rules that govern how sentences are put together, aka grammar, some languages assign gender to objects (french), semantics: meaning of each individual word (meaning of the sentence). Language explosion: 1. 5-6 years children enter language explosion and vocabulary increases rapidly and have for the most part mastered major aspects of language. Strong positive correlation between infant segmentation ability and expressive vocabulary at 2 years. Subtopic: different phonemes: infants can discriminate more phonemes that adults can, radio vs ladio, jada vs jjada. Social learning theory: children learn language through a combination of imitation and operant conditioning, baby babbling and says mama .
