PSY 457LEC Lecture 10: Statistics
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Rationalism - we may seem to learn from experience, but we knew it all along. Empiricism - it may look as if our knowledge exceeds our experience, but it was all first in the senses. Must involve both experience & innate structure, but the extent to which each of these are important differs across views. Learner must select the correct structure from an infinite # of potential structures, w/o waiting forever & w/o the aid of an instructor. The acquisition of structured info through discovery of patterns in the input by passive observation no feedback or reinforcement. Has been proposed as a mechanism to solve the segmentation problem: inspokenlanguagetherearenopausesbtwnwordssohowdowedeterminewhereonewordendsandthenextone beginsperhapsevenmoreinterestinglyhowdoinfantswhodonothavearichvocabularytorelyondealwiththes egmentationproblem. In spoken language there are no pauses btwn words, so how do we determine where 1word ends and the next. Has been proposed as a mechanism to solve the segmentation problem: Mostly formalized in the field of language acquisition, where it"s been associated with tracking sequential stat.
