PSC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Punctuated Equilibrium, Speech Perception
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Iteration - new utterances are created by adding info in a linear manner i. ii. iii. The child breathed the air & coughed & cried: recursion - add info by embedding 1 structure into another. The child whom the mother loved breathed the air i. ii. iii: how do iteration and recursion contribute to productivity? a. Iteration - can continually add more utterances to the end of old utterances: recursion - can pack a lot of ideas into a sentence i. ii. faster/ continually add more meanings. Nature/nurture debate: how do punctuated equilibrium and gradualism in evolution map to the nature/nurture debate, punctuated - remain static, until something sudden happens, mutation ii. Early exposure necessary for full grammatical competence: why might this evidence be problematic? i. Those deprived until adulthood: also different from normally developing kids, could argue - it"s the impoverished environments that reduce language skills, make a nurture argument.
