Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mary Ainsworth, Universal Grammar, Cognitive Development

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Jackson

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Ex. baby crying as a call for help, or physically reaching arms out to parent: contact comfort: the pleasure of being touched and held, one of the mechanisms that sustains our attachment. Ex. cuddling has biological consequences (release of oxytocin: margaret and harry harlow, proving that comfort is a more powerful resource than food, rhesus monkeys (textbook pg. Ex. emotional intelligence: secure children are more prone to explore with their emotions, thus are able to pick up on subtle emotions/reactions more than anxious children. Structure: syntax, grammar, etc, gernative, can put symbols together to create new meaning, difference between communication and language, yes, how language develops, role of learning. The more languages learned early on, the more the person will be fluent and won"t have an accent with it: language learning is a social process, social interactions are also critical to the development of language.