PSYC 3440 Chapter 6: Cognitive Development - Chapter 6 summary

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3440
• Professor: Caron Bell

Document Summary

Majority of children learn language rapidly and well. Special characteristics of language acquisition: it"s universality. Occurs quickly across a wide range of environments: self-motivating properties. Children have an interest in language to master a very complex system in a relatively short time: it"s relation to disorders that affect thinking (down syndrome, Children with both syndromes tend to have iqs that are much lower than normal. Language skills of children with williams syndrome tends to be much better than those of children with down. Children with williams syndrome score higher than would be expected from their iqs on many tests of vocabulary and complex syntax. Some adults with williams syndrome speak well enough that they could be mistaken for typical adults. Doesn"t happen with children with down syndrome but these children succeed on piagetian tasks designed to measure reasoning, such as number conservation and class inclusion, that children with william"s syndrome fail.