PSYC 190 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Little Albert Experiment, Tabula Rasa, Reinforcement Learning
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Language: nsl developed sophisticated grammatical rules, which was imposed by younger generations of learners imposing structure on input, language learning is highly variable in children and later evens out. Section 2. 20: sdsu"s word bank surveys parents check off words their kids use and. Immersion school or community groups is best: are there cognitive benefits of bilingualism, bilingual kids are smarter than monolingual kids, have to switch between languages and gain cognitive control, executive function (ef) self-control, planning, flexibility. If only some kids in the same neighborhood learn a second language, is that due to parents or better ef: better ef could drive kids to learn second language but there are no big studies. Papers: note 2: small samples cannot reflect general population, file drawer problem scientists don"t publish all studies (usually because fail to find a relationship between two variables, small studies more likely to find positive effects.
