PSYC 307 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 - Development and Socialization
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Evidence 1: humans are capable of producing, recognizing, and using approximately. 150 phonemes in communication, but no language uses more than 70 of them: people are not able to discriminate easily between some phonemes that are not in their own language. It is easiest to organize sounds before puberty. Targeted a large group of immigrants who moved from the same place to the same host culture at different ages. Asked people questions about their identification with hong kong and canada. Found that the identification with chinese culture was not predicted by any of the variables in the study age of moving and length of time in vancouver didn"t have an effect on their chinese identification. Found that identification with canadian culture was much different. Immigrants who moved to canada before 15 identified more strongly, those who had been there longer (20+ vs. 5) identified more strongly, and when they moved here between the ages of 16-
