PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intellectual Disability, Problem Solving, Behaviorism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Dr. Bruce Tsuiji

Document Summary

Language & thought: cognition, how information is processed and manipulated in remembering, thinking, language, knowing, aka information processing approach, mental processes, structures that cannot be directly observed, cognition involved in all behaviour e. Is cognition essential for learning: mental retardation is not always accompanied by poor language skills, williams syndrome, much lower than normal cognitive skills, but normal language skills ii. Some deaf children that lack written or sign language still have cognitive skills = hearing: history i. ii. iii. Empirical study of cognition - 1956: herbert simon - problem solving, nobel prize dec 8 1978, verbal protocols of human problem solving, explored expertise i. ii. iii. iv. v. Domain specific memory: real game boards better than random boards. Deliberate practice: 10 year rule, 10 000 hours to master something. Broca"s area (expressive) i: wernicke"s area (receptive) iii. If one was lost: language, george miller - memory, whorf"s (1956) linguistic relativity hypothesis i. ii.