PSYC 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Card Sorting, Stroop Effect, Mutual Exclusivity
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Just because there aren"t delays associated with bilingual learning, doesn"t mean that bilingual infants don"t approach learning language differently . Infants have more difficulty learning 2 new words that sound very similar to each other than words that sound different if infants look more at switch trial, they"ve learned what word goes with what. Bilingual infants might be even slower in learning these hard words. Monolinguals at 14 don"t learn but at 17 and 20 do they learn and look more. Bilinguals 14 mos don"t learn either, but at 17 still don"t learn, but at 20 months they learn those similar sounding words. Most obvious benefit knowing more than 1 language. False belief task ask someone to think about. Appearance-reality task what things appear to be and what is reality ( a crayon box with animal crackers inside ask kid to think about other kids belief when it should be false)
