PSY 357 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: American Sign Language, Wilhelm Wundt, Noam Chomsky
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Checklist of objectives for introduction: themes and history of psycholinguistics: __be able to identify: __the field that studies the structures and use of language. __the field of psychology that studies mental processes and representations. __the field that studies the manner in which the human mind processes language. __the interdisciplinary field that studies minds and mental processes: __be able to identify the basic definitions of: Participants described their mental experiences during a task. 4. __understand how empiricism and nativism relate to the nature/nurture debate in cognitive psychology. __also be able to identify which side of the debate watson, skinner and chomsky fall on. 5. __be familiar with the key developments that led to the decline of behaviorism. __also be able to identify a true description of the poverty of the stimulus argument. Deletion should always cause complication but doesn"t always. The purple balloon filled with diamonds flew to pluto on a jet ski. Finite set of symbols, infinite set of combinations.
