PSY321H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Odisha, Social Loafing, Kibbutz
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We all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one . A sensitive period is a period of time in an organism"s development that allows for the relatively easy acquisition of a set of skills. People aren"t able to discriminate easily between some phonemes that aren"t in their own language. Research with infants suggests that young infants can discriminate among all the phonemes that humans are able to produce. As we are exposed to language, we begin to categorize sounds in ways that are used by the language. Within the first year of life, children begin to lose the ability to distinguish between closely related sounds that aren"t in their own language. Exploited by the military, use words called shibboleths, those who learned the language late in life have a difficult time pronouncing.
