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Title: 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

2
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

3
Language
  • We are all born to recognize speech sounds from
  • all the worlds languages

4
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

5
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

6
Language
7
Language
  • Genes design the mechanisms for a language, and
    experience activates them as it modifies the brain

8
Language
  • New language learning gets harder with age

9
Language
  • Linguistic Determinism
  • Whorfs hypothesis that language determines the
    way we think

10
Language
  • The interplay of thought and language

11
Animal Thinking and Language
  • The straight-line part of the dance points in the
    direction of a nectar source, relative to the sun

12
Animal Thinking and Language
  • Gestured Communication
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