PSYCO223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mindset, Phonological Awareness, Lev Vygotsky

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO223
• Professor: Sandra Wiebe

Document Summary

6. 6% of babies born in alberta, 6% of babies in canada (2005) The majority of infants that are born preterm go on to do very well: low birth weight. Increased risk for complications (need help breathing, feeding) Long term: risk for lower iq, difficulties with math, planning/executive function. Examples of experience-expectant brain development: speech perception, face perception. Phoneme: smallest sound categories in human speech that distinguish meaning: note: phonemes vary from language to language, /l/ vs. /r/ in english and japanese. Between 6 and 12 months, infants lose the ability to make certain phoneme distinctions that are not meaningful in the language they are learning. Difficult to learn to perceive these distinctions later in life. The auditory system is set up to adapt so that infant learns to discriminate speech sounds that will be meaningful as s/he learns language, and lump together speech sounds that are categorized together.