Language and Thought
This man's dissertation married linguistics with psychology, and the two never looked back.
Who is Chomsky?
This is the process of evolution Darwin described in his book as the "Origin of Species"
What is Natural Selection?
This is the first of Piaget's stages.
What is the sensorimotor period?
This spectrum condition is primarily a social and communication disorder according to the DSM. Right Jacob?
What is Autism?
When this heroic man wasn't helping defeat the nazis and inventing the modern computer, he was describing his "Test" - a popular thought experiment about consciousness.
Who is Alan Turing?
These webs of knowledge can be used to describe language, associations, or declarative memory.
What are semantic networks?
This animal's tail gave Darwin fits because it was difficult to explain in his framework
What is the peacock?
We learn to walk and say our first words at about this age.
What is 12 months?
Elkind might say kids underestimate their parents ability to empathize with their condition, citing this.
What is the personal fable?
This version of the consciousness problem simply has to do with mapping neural states onto conscious ones.
What is the easy problem of consciousness?
These are the smallest units and building blocks of spoken language.
What are phonemes?
On the flip side, humans tend to find this facial feature attractive.
What is high symmetry?
These effects of hormones take place at puberty. Locks, keys, etc...
What are activational effects?
Schizophrenia typically emerges during this period of the lifespan
What is early adulthood?
This component of language is all about meaning, but doesn't derive only from the words and phrases themselves, instead relying on context, gestures, and prior knowledge.
What is pragmatics?
This concept entails organisms promoting not only their own genetic fitness, but that of relatives too. Sorry fifth cousin, not you.
What is inclusive fitness?
This model describes how the prefrontal cortex developmentally lags behind the amygdala, leading to telltale features of adolescence.
What is the mismatch model of adolesence?
Drugs and TMS are examples of this sort of therapy.
What is biomedical therapy?
This medical procedure messes with concsciousness, and we aren't exactly sure how (but we are glad it does).
What is anasthesia?
This argument describes how language acquisition cannot in principle depend only on environmental inputs.
What is the Poverty of the Stimulus argument?
This is the field of psychology that cites Darwin the most.
What is evolutionary Psychology?
This is the modern "nature" side of the nature-nature debate.
What is nativism?
Bipolar disorder consists of variations between these two "polar" opposite states.
What are mania and depression?
This thought experiment consisted of us traveling to distant worlds via teleportation. But was it us?
What is the replicator?