PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10-11: Empiricism, Metalinguistic Awareness, Formal Grammar
25 Mar 2016
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Chapter 10: development of the self and social cognition (p. 345-380 only) Self concept: attitudes, behaviours and values that a person believes makes him/her a unique individual. Variations in self-esteem associated with ethnicity and culture. Chapter 11: development of language and communication skills. Use of language and our creation sets humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Psycholinguists: study the structure and development of children"s language. Researchers concluded that there are 5 kinds of knowledge that underlie the growth of linguistic proficiency: phonology. The basic units of sound, or phonemes that are used in a language and the rules for combining these sounds. For example, discriminating b from p or learning to combine t+h. No two languages have the same phonologies, which is why foreign languages sound so strange to us. Children must learn to discriminate, produce and combine the speech-like sounds for their native tongue: morphology. Specify how words are formed from sounds.
