Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Mental Representation, Genetic Disorder, Pacifier

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

Document Summary

Interactionists: everything about language is influenced by its communicative function, it develops through hearing it/ communicating and interaction. Phonemes specialization to native language (6 12months: operant conditioning: parents selectively reinforce sounds that are most like words, Successive approximation (gradually shape language): language development is due to imitation, reinforcement and generalization, child is passive, development is driven by input. Criticism: parents usually reinforce all sounds infants do, not selectively, similar sequences of language development in different cultures. Nativists: all in the brain, language is too complex to arise from experience alone, must be preexisting, innate. Sensitive period: until 6 years, language develops with brain development. Language acquisition divice (chomsky) =innate system, only in human brains, contains universal rules of grammar, active child s brain. Evidence: (cid:373)o(cid:374)key(cid:859)s la(cid:374)guage lea(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:894)(cid:374)o g(cid:396)a(cid:373)(cid:373)a(cid:396)(cid:895), i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374) of (cid:374)e(cid:449) la(cid:374)guage syste(cid:373) o(cid:374) a deaf people island (intrinsic motivation system that makes us learn language) Criticism: william syndrome (poor grammar), acquisition of grammar is continuous and gradual.