PSYCH 3312 Lecture 3: The Cognitive Revolution Part II
8 Feb 2018
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Slides: by using classical and operant conditioning principles words/phrases that they have already been reinforced for. A stimulus elicits the first word, which serves as the stimulus for the 2nd word, and so on https://osu. instructure. com/courses/23531/files/4686660?module_item_id. 5(cid:524) behaviorists(cid:495) simplistic view of speech production. A sentence is a sequence of words. Many behaviorists believed that language acquisition can be explained. Problem with this is that people would grow up to only say. An infinite # of sentences can be generated and understood w/ finite. Poverty of the input: children(cid:495)s sentence production abilities are too advanced to be explained by only what they(cid:495)ve heard. People don(cid:495)t just echo what they(cid:495)ve heard before, they have the ability. Sentences are not formed by simply stringing words together like. There are rules to how languages are produced. Ppl have the ability to extend sentences. Kids learning a language don(cid:495)t learn specific. Is a sophisticated, hierarchical system that involves storage and to produce many kinds of sentences.
