PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Speech Perception, Ipad, Speech Production

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Infancy and childhood: linguistic development, cognitive development, attachment. Ability to acquire language is biologically-based: critical period: see genie"s case, a) linguistic development. Interactionist theories: input beings in the womb. Factors that make children experts: social interest, speech perception abilities. Cant tell differences in sounds really well. Lose this capacity as you get older. Can tell differences between languages, even with facial expressions: speech production. Social disorders can be told in about 6 months (autism). Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing mental structures without changing them. Changing existing mental structures to explain new experiences: sensorimotor stage (birth 2 years): Development of object permanence: preoperational stage (2-7 years) Failure at conservation: concrete operational (7-11 years) Perform mental operations (e. g conservation task: formal operational (11 years on ) Definition: the close, emotional bonds of attraction that develop between infants and their caregivers , triggered in two contexts. Times of illness, hunger, fatigue, and pain.