CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Critical Period, Intersubjectivity, Lev Vygotsky

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Jim Davies

Document Summary

Lecture 8: cognitive development child study: language development. U-shaped grammar curve: from: went, to: goed, go back to: went. Universal grammar theory: the mind has a bunch of switches that get set when you learn a language as a child. Rules for understanding language: ex: subject omission switch , in spanish you can omit the subject of a sentence, but in. Poverty of the stimulus": critical stage: 3-5. During this time children learn 2-4 new words per day to their productive vocabulary, double the amount that they can understand. That"s 1 every one or two hours awake for years. They are learning words that they don"t hear that day. Ex: recall suddenly understanding a joke you heard years ago. Critical period: impriting appear in a short period of time: jean piaget"s development stages: Formal operational (11 death: sensorimotor ( birth-2, simple reflex action to symbolic processing: trying to roll over to reach the ball.