PSY315H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Noam Chomsky, Sociolinguistics, Psycinfo
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The theoretical perspective that seeks to explain behavior in terms of factors external to the mind. A computer program for the analysis of transcripts, and an archive of previously collected transcripts of children s speech. cognitive science. An interdisciplinary field including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and neuroscience devoted to understanding how the mind works. The theoretical perspective that seeks to explain behavior in terms of processes that occur inside the mind. A method of testing hypotheses about how a process, such as language acquisition, works by implementing a model of that process in a computer program and asking whether the computer can mimic the process that is being modeled. connectionism. A theoretical perspective that holds that thinking consists of activating connections in a network of interconnected nodes and of activation spreading in this network along paths determined by the strengths of the connections among those nodes. constructivism.
