PSY 3136 Chapter 1: Jan 12- readings
8 Mar 2017
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Chapiter 1 intro to the study of language dev p. 3-15. Language and the scientific study of language dev. The transmittal of information to others in socially appropriate ways. Being able to distinguish between vat and bat or knowing that narg could be an english word but that ngar could not. Knowing the meaning of words and how to form new ones. Sys that govern inflectional morphology and word combination. Knowing the diff between man bites dog and dog bites man. Reasons for the scientific study of language dev. Language dev as a basic research topic: how children acquire language. By understand this we would have a better understanding of how the human mind works. Behaviorism: change in behavior occurs in response to the consequences prior behaviors. Cognitivism : we cannot understand behavior without understanding what is going on inside the mind of the organism producing the behavior. The history of the study of language dev.
