PSY 335 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Speech Perception, Human Brain, Verbal Memory
6 Dec 2017
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6 (spent three class days on language), then ch. 4 (spent two class days), and then ch. Information processing theory: children as computers, cognitive flexibility: ability to switch from one idea/rule/strategy to the next. When you look at the graph on the slide, do you get how that could be applied to an example: overlapping-waves theory: children use a variety of different approaches to solve problems. How is this different from previous theories: children are social learners, behavior is controlled by adult speech, private. What"s the relationship between language and thought as. Vygotsky saw it: young child talking to themselves, internalization of adult speech, now saying it to themselves, thought: private speech /out loud speech internalized, thinking and language are related. What"s generativity: language: complex system of rules for combining different kinds of elements, generativity: limited set of things to work with, generate infinite amount of possibilities, total of 228,132 words (in oxford english dictionary)
