PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Robert Sternberg, Functional Fixedness, Verbal Behavior
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Productivity: creation of new messages, humans are able to produce new messages due to our ability to connect unrelated information. Nature: researchers in this camp emphasize the biological, predetermined nature of language nativism: the belief that certain abilities are built into our brains. Human language is a dynamic interaction between inherited biology, environmental factors, and social pressures. Early experiences, such as being exposed to our native sounds, shape our language faculty and this reciprocally influences our later abilities and decreases sensitivity to nonnative sounds. Genetics enable us to develop language and our environment specializes us. While behaviorist models of operant conditioning offer clear predictions for how to modify verbal behavior, biology helps explain developmental constraints, and social exposure can help explain individual differences and growth. There are two main areas commonly attributed to language processing: the first was discovered after a man who had been kicked by a horse was treated by dr.
