PSYC 1001 Lecture 18: PSYC Chpater 8 E,F,G
8 Dec 2015
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Chapter 8 e,f,g and exam info: animal language. Can animals learn language: chimpanzees & humans: 98% genetic material in common, chimps share many human behaviours: Hunting, toolmaking, back patting, kissing, holding hands. Vocabulary of 160 signs by age 5. www. youtube. com/watch?v=ouwovf7tqga (6:05) Understood 72% of 660 spoken english sentences. Pet scans resemble broca"s area in humans. Nativist: skinner: learn thru imitation, reinforcement, chomsky: language acquisition device (lad) According to skinner and the behaviourists, children acquire language through conditioning and imitation. Nativist theorists, led by noam chomsky, assert that humans have an innate capacity to learn the rules of language, an lad, which facilitates language development. Interactionist theories hold that biology and experience both make important contributions. Two prominent interactionist theories are the cognitive and social communication theories. Cognitive theory asserts that language development is an important aspect of more general cognitive development, depending, like all development, on both maturation and experience.
