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Using Common Experience Video Clip

This video delves into psychology as a scientific discipline, emphasizing the importance of research methods and systematic approaches to answer psychological questions. It explains how observations and experiments contribute to unbiased and objective findings. Additionally, it covers linguistic theories by Noam Chomsky and B.F. Skinner about language acquisition, discussing critical periods for language learning illustrated by cases like Genie and the Victor of Aveyron. This insightful exploration helps bridge the gap between scientific inquiry and psychological understanding.

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Using Common Experience Video Clip

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  1. Using Common Experience Video Clip

  2. Psychology as a Science • What is science? • Why is a class on research methods important? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F8UFGu2M2gM

  3. What is Science? • Systematic means to answer questions • Observations • Experiments • Unbiased • Objective

  4. To understand a concept, go back and research how it was discovered • Intelligence is inherited • How could this be studied? • What was really discovered? • What does that mean for any individual person?

  5. Approaching Psychology as a Science • What are some psychological questions that you have? • What are unscientific ways to answer these questions? • How can we find scientific answers to these questions?

  6. Approaching Psychology as a Science • What are some psychological questions that you have? • What are unscientific ways to answer these questions? • Anecdotes • Fictional examples • How can we find scientific answers to these questions? • Evidence from systematic observations, experiments

  7. Science of Psychology • Scientific method • Systematic • Unbiased • Specific, testable predictions • Operational definitions • Falsifiable

  8. Language • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRMbH36HRE&feature=BFa&list=UUsooa4yRKGN_zEE8iknghZA

  9. Defining Language • What is language? • What is not language? • Is music a language? • Do other animals have language?

  10. How is Language Learned? Nativist Empiricist • Humans are innately prepared for language • Noam Chomsky • Language acquisition device (LAD) • Humans learn language through experience • B. F. Skinner

  11. Early Language Deprivation • Critical and sensitive periods • Genie • Victor of Aveyron • What do theses cases suggest about language learning? • Based on this, how should we approach learning of a second language?

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