PSY 102 Chapter 8: Chapter 8.docx
10 Sep 2014
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Propose children"s ability to learn language results from general skills they apply across variety of activities such as ability to perceive learn and recognize patterns: this requires a lot of social understanding and knowing what people think, also most social pragmatic abilities does not require as much insight on part of children, such as pointing at doll and saying the word may leads them to associate, children learn language better but adults often learn better in other, also specific brain area specifically left temporal lobe is more active in language processing than other type of learning => there is distinct cognitive processing. But most of us couldn"t recall childhood memories! (cid:240) (cid:240) (cid:240) (cid:240) (cid:240) (cid:240) Average reader read fast majority of printed words, can"t be the only case because we won"t be able to read new words (cid:240) (cid:240) (cid:240) (cid:240) (cid:240) (cid:240)
