PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tag Question, Cognitive Revolution, Vocal Folds

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

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Cognitive revolution: 19th century focus on the mind. They believed that you had to focus on the mind and look at people"s behavior: behaviorist focus on overt responses. Arguments regarding incomplete picture of human functioning something is missing in this view. Childre(cid:374)"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior a(cid:374)d la(cid:374)guage are (cid:271)uilt (cid:271)(cid:455) their pare(cid:374)ts: empirical study of cognition 1956 conference, simon and newell problem solving how do we do it. They were focused on problem solving and decision making: chomsky new model of language language ability is wired-in. We are all wired to learn a language. The way you talk is influenced by the world: sapir-whorf - (cid:862)linguistic-relati(cid:448)it(cid:455) h(cid:455)pothesis(cid:863) different cultures have different languages which leads to different cognition. Inuits have more words for snow which means that they think about it differently: hopi do not have past tense verbs in their language. 3) meaningful --- semanticity, primary form of communicating information to others.