Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)

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Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in
Modules)

• Module 24
• Language and Thought
• James A. McCubbin, PhD
• Clemson University
• Worth Publishers

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Language

• Language
• our spoken, written, or gestured works and the
  way we combine them to communicate meaning
• Phoneme
• in a spoken language, the smallest distinctive
  sound unit

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Language

• We are all born to recognize speech sounds from
• all the worlds languages

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Language

• Babbling Stage
• beginning at 3 to 4 months
• the stage of speech development in which the
  infant spontaneously utters various sounds at
  first unrelated to the household language
• One-Word Stage
• from about age 1 to 2
• the stage in speech development during which a
  child speaks mostly in single words

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Language

• Two-Word Stage
• beginning about age 2
• the stage in speech development during which a
  child speaks in mostly two-word statements
• Telegraphic Speech
• early speech stage in which the child speaks like
  a telegram-go car--using mostly nouns and
  verbs and omitting auxiliary words

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Language
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Language

• Genes design the mechanisms for a language, and
  experience activates them as it modifies the brain

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Language

• New language learning gets harder with age

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Language

• Linguistic Determinism
• Whorfs hypothesis that language determines the
  way we think

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Language

• The interplay of thought and language

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Animal Thinking and Language

• The straight-line part of the dance points in the
  direction of a nectar source, relative to the sun

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Animal Thinking and Language

• Gestured Communication