AP Psychology: Thinking & Language Flashcards

6011980103	Skinner	He believed that language development follows the general principles of learning; association, imitation and reinforcement	0
6011980104	Noam Chomsky	He believed that we were all born with a "language acquisition device" in which grammar switches are thrown as children experience their language	1
6011980105	Jenny Saffran	She believed that before 1 year of age, infants are able to discern word breaks and statistically analyze which syllables most often go together	2
6011980106	Norman Geschwind	He believed that when we read aloud, the words register in the brain's visual area, relayed to the angular gyrus, which transforms them into an auditory code that is received and understood in Wernicke's area and sent to the Broca's area, which controls the motor cortex as it creates the pronounced word	3
6011980107	Benjamin Whorf	He believed that language shapes our thinking	4
6011980108	Wolfgang Köhler	He demonstrated that chimpanzees also exhibit the "Aha!" reaction that characterizes reasoning by insight	5
6011980109	Descartes	He believed that animals were living robots that could not think	6