PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Linguistic Competence, Punctuated Equilibrium, Object Permanence
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Demonstrated one of those powerful insights that makes a great scientist. Intelligence testing has been going on for some time but people had only been looking for the right answers, not any emphasise on the errors. He wondered if there were any patterns in the errors. Most intelligence testing was being done on children for academic reass. Linguistic competence= all the sentence you could say or understand. Between your competence and your performance are processes that implement your competence, eg. all the processes that you need in order to speak. Performance errors that do not tell us about constraints on our competence, eg, you cannot speak properly on your competence. Competence errors that reflect limitations on your competence, eg, you cannot speak properly because of brain damage. Performance errors are unsystematic because they are due to idiosyncratic factors of circumstance in individual live . Piaget found that there are systematic errors reflect limitations in competence.
