PSY 2012 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Animal Communication, Concept Learning, Language Acquisition
8 Dec 2015
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Based on arbitrary associations between words and what they represent. Language vs. communication: communication is the sharing of idea between. Language is an effective way to communicate complicated ideas. Form of communication individuals: animal communication. Don"t have a language by the way we define it but can communicate with it: language evolution. Proto-humans separated from proto-chimps about 5 million years ago. Small bump on fossil skulls suggests broca"s area evolved about 2 million years ago. Larynx started to descend neck 1. 6 million years ago. Humans first started speaking around this time: language acquisition. Telepathic speech at about 2 years old. Telegraphic speech at about 2 years old (early, short speech) Depends on the environment: noam chomsky. Nativist theory- people are born with some aspects of language (innate: b. f. skinner. Capacity to speak of things and events that are not present. Capacity to generate new expressions by combining other expressions. Creativity- ability to describe things never seen before.
