PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mary Ainsworth, John Bowlby, Oral Stage
6 Oct 2015
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You come into the world with the mechanisms and knowledge already in. Language acquisition device -- built in module for language. Grammar rules are acquired before exception mastery. Nicaraguan sign language example -- inbuilt need to communicate. Infants preprogrammed to attend to beginnings and endings of sounds. Children change their output based on reinforcement. Infants are born with biological preparedness to pay attention to language. Infant brain has generalized tools used across cognitive domains (not language-specific neurological model) Children want to communicate even before they have language. Learn new words to help her communicate - lois bloom. Words communicate meaning that children already have - melissa. Makes it clearer to baby where beginnings and ends of words are, hear same words over and over again; evolutionary advantage. - babies begin to store words in memory. Start with cooing, then babble (phonemes of all languages), single words, then two-word sentences. Holophrase - combination of word(s) and gestures.
