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Objectives:
- Define cognition
- Define concept, heuristics,
algorithms, prototypes, trial and error, and insight and explain how
they are used in problem solving.
- Analyze how fixation,
confirmation bias, overconfidence, framing, and belief perseverance
influence the ability to solve problems.
- Describe the structure of
language.
- Identify language development
stages.
- Explain how the nature vs nurture debate relates to language acquisition
and development.
- Discuss Whorf’s linguistic
relativity hypothesis.
- Discuss other theories of
language development – Chomsky, Skinner
- Analyze the studies on animal
communication.
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