Splh 566 stuvia - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Define language, describe the 5 components of language, and explain its relation to communication and speech. - Answer Language- shared code or system for representing concepts through use of symbols and rules that govern how they're combined/ words and how they're combined Speech- producing sounds/ articulation Communication- sending a message from one person to another 5 components of language: · Semantics o Meaning/content · Syntax o Rules for combining words · Morphology o Word...

5 Social capabilities of preverbal infants (0-12 months old) - Answer 1. Newborn Preferences: faces, talking, mothers voice and language -we prove this w/ the Conditioned Sucking Paradigm 2. primary intersubjectivity: 0-6 mo: Interactions with faces aware that other social partners exist 3. joint attention: 6-12mo: ability to to attend to something another person is focused on. - first proven by gaze following and sharining objects, -Around 10 mo. proven by imperative and then declarative p...

Object permanence developed, what happened with language? - Answer Certain words emerge in their language like "all gone" Means-ends behavior and problem solving developed, what happened with language? - Answer Certain words emerge in their language like "uh oh" Categorization emerged, what happened with language? - Answer Huge increase in vocabulary Many of the principles of cognitive learning can also be applied to language learning—children: - Answer Selectively attend to perce...

How do cognition and language co-develop? - Answers Many principles of cognitive learning can also be applied to language learning- 1. selectively attend to important stimuli 2. discriminate stimuli across dimensions 3. remember stimuli 4. classify stimuli based on results of discrimination examples of cognition and language co-development - Answers - when object permanence develops, words like "all gone" and "uh-oh" appear - when means-end behavior and problem solving develop, words...