Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Temporal Lobe, Kanzi, Psycholinguistics

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Psychically puny and relatively defenseless compared to other species. But humans dominate because we can communicate more. Do this by creating mental representations of world and efficiently and think better than other animals manipulate them in forms of language, thinking, reasoning and problem solving. Mental representations include images, ideas, concepts and principles. Process of education is all about transferring ideas and skills from one mind to another. The limits of my language means the limits of my world . If you talk to a man in a language . Most common, universal feature of human society. Every culture, no matter how isolated or primitive has language. Learned to read and write some words but never learned to speak. Mother/son told by father not to communicate with her. As if she was brought up by wolves, She seemed to prove theory wrong, she was learning in her teen years when they said she had missed the critical period.