PSYC 354 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Noam Chomsky, Pragmatics, Social Cognition
9 Feb 2020
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Consider and evaluate evidence and arguments on each side of this debate. Psych 354 midterm 2 review: chomsky"s argument was logical rather than empirical, didn"t consider how language was used in communicative contexts. Language is not innate: tomasello, children can find patterns in the input they hear in order to learn the rules of language, children use other abilities to help them learn language (gaze following, joint attention) Why did piaget study children playing with marbles: as children develop, they gain more experience with cooperative relationships and morality changes, marbles, rules were important in piaget"s theory of moral development. Piaget"s theory of development (ie. no regression in stages: outline the "social intuitionist" approach to moral judgement. What are the arguments for and against this approach: moral decisions are typically the result of intuitions based on evolved emotional reactions that are justified after the fact.
