PSYCH 1X03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Speech Segmentation, Phoneme, Operant Conditioning
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Language may influence how we perceive and experience the world-whorf sparer hypothesies: brazilian tribe language lacks numerical sense as language only has up to 3 numbers. Person speaking a different lang seem like they are speaking quickly as u have difficulty segmenting speech stream into word units. Early speech segmentation shows strong positive correlation at 2 years of age. Children can distinguish between phonoemes better than adults. Universal phoneme discrimination-the ability of infants to discriminate between any sounds they are tested on. Children learn language through imitation and operant conditioning. Overextension- rules is applied to broadly child applies doggie to any four legged animal. Language aquistion device-an innate mechanism ,present in ony humans that allow language to devopl rapidly according to universal rules. Deaf children learned a sing language that was inate and automatic. Wahsoe didn"t use systematic grammer so it aint a language. Sarah learn a lot of vocab but couldn"t comine them in novel ways.