Exam 1 Flashcards
Rationalism
Nature
Innate properties of mind
mind imposes structure upon the world
primacy of thought
Empiricism
Nurture
born with knowing nothing
general accumulated knowledge by picking up pieces of sensory information
product of external sensations
exclusive source of knowledge is experience
Rationalists
Greeks Plato
Descartes, Spinoza
Fodor
Chomsky
Empiricists
Locke, Hume Berkeley
Behaviorists skinner Watson
Structuralists
Connectionists, associationists
Classical conditioning
Pavlov
reflex behavior
unconditioned stimulus unconditioned response conditioned stimulus conditioned response
Operant conditioning
Skinner
Voluntary behavior training
pigeons to guide bombs
associate stimulus with behavioral response reinforce behavior occurring in presence of stimulus
Skinner
1957
Verbal behavior-responses and reinforcement
Chomsky
Review of Skinners verbal behavior 1959
Tennenhaus 1988
Find the paper
Gardner’s Hexagon
A cognitive hexagon through use of dotted and sidelines to indicate relationship among consecutive disciplines
Linguistics neuroscience psychology artificial intelligence philosophy anthropology
Linguistic principles
Phonetics
phrenology
morphology
syntax
Lexical words
Word that constitutes the major part of the vocabulary
noun verb adjective adverb
open class
Free morphemes
Lexical words and function words
Function words
A word that has a grammatical function articles
conjunctions preposition auxiliary pronouns
close class
bound morphemes
Derivation on morphine and inflectional morphine
Derivational morpheme
A morphine added to a system from a new word.
It changes the syntactic category of a word.
It can be a prefix or suffix
Inflectional morpheme
The grammatical morpheme that is a fixed to word according to rule
English has eight inflectional morphemes
possessive
plural third person singular progressive past is past participle superlative comparative
Constituent structure
Categorize words into distinct parts of speech
Group words into structural constituents/hierarchal structure
Phrase structure rules
Transformational rules
Click studies
Experimentally test reality of phrase structure rules
Derivational theory of complexity
Experimentally test reality of transformational rules
prove the cycle logical reality of structural constituents
Stages of processing
Sensory input, sensory store (all info lost in 1 1/2 to 3 seconds), attention, working memory (maintained/rehearsed closed parentheses), encoding, long-term memory (some info lost overtime)
Sensory memory
Modality specific: visual, auditory, smell, touch.
Represents information in literal, and analyzed form
Sperling: partial/full report procedure
Working memory (STM)
Information currently being processed, size of storage severely limited (5-9 items), limitations on how much information can be retained
