PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 70: Operant Conditioning, Metalinguistic Awareness, Cognitive Flexibility

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Marion Perlmutter

Document Summary

Semantics meanings of words in relation to each other. Collectivist more words for interpersonal emotions. Empathy feel with or for people. Your word choice can affect how other people view your opinion. Choosing how we describe our opinions on the idea can affect how people view us. Language and thought are related language influences thought and thought influences language. State 1: only babies can cry, their needs aren"t being met. Telegraphic speech (emerge at age 2) two word sentences - mom go . They can"t say certain words but they can wave if someone says wave. Overextensions overly wide use of a word. Dog - for any four legged animal. Using a word in a highly restricted way. He goed to the store instead of went. Up until puberty when language is easily and readily acquired. Afterwards: it"s difficult to learn another language. Sensitive period language is easily acquired. Not as harsh of a cut off as the critical period.