Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fox Proteins, Safran, Syntactic Bootstrapping

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Olessia Jouravlev

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Vegetative sounds( 0-6 weeks) cooing (6 weeks, approving sounds) laughter (16 weeks) Methods of studying linguistic development in children: sucking habituation paradigm: baby given a pacifier that is connected to a computer, when the child is habituated to a stimulus the sucking rate goes down. If there is change between sucking rate when exposing the child: preferential looking technique, conditioned head turning technique. Preferential looking technique: researchers record the length of fixation of a child. It is believed that children will fixate longer on pictures that are related to what they hear about. Conditioned head turning technique: an infant is resented a certain sound to one of his sides and it is presented consistently, a child it thought by reinforcement to turn his head in response to a sounds. If a child complies with the reinforcement he is given a toy or a nonverbal reinforcement.