PSYC1024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Noam Chomsky, Tabula Rasa, Cognitive Revolution
2 Jan 2019
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Not claiming that behaviour does not matter- some psychologists suggested that it m rather than to deny their existence or importance. Behaviourism was predominant in the early 20th century- by the mid to late 20th centu. Psychology as the science of behaviour was like defining physics as the science succeed, mentalistic concepts would have to integrate and explain the behavio. Mentalism" to describe what was needed, so we talked about cognition instead. Chomsky and others observed that the principles of language (grammar) were u. Children slaves and labourers from all over the world developed their own lang. There are also many phrases which we are never exposed to that we know are make sense anywhere in the world) A behaviourist account cannot reconcile knowing in the absence of learning. Broca"s area- an area identified as the speech centre of the brain. Damage to this location results in a loss of speech production abilities.
