Final Project: Language as an exemplar of cognitive psychological concepts
It was suggested at the beginning of this unit that language can serve as a recapitulation of many of the principles of cognitive psychology that have been discussed throughout this course. That is to say that language, as a wholly cognitive process, requires attention, reception, perception of information, verbal mental representations, memory storage, and memory retrieval. It is integral to the ability to problem solve, reason, and to make decisions. This Final Project asks you to analyze the idea that language can be used as an exemplar of cognitive psychology and to conclude whether or not it is true, in whole or in part.
You should conclude the paper by summarizing the goodness-of-fit of language as an exemplar of the cognitive psychological concepts discussed in this course.
Because the Anderson’s Cognitive Psychology and its Implications has been central to the progress of the course, it will be the primary source for the paper. There should be a minimum of six sources. The textbook may be used as one source. You might find that articles retrieved and discussed on the Discussion Boards might be useful, and the text identifies source articles in every chapter. Student work demonstrates mastery of the concepts of cognitive psychology. Student can thoroughly identify, explain, and discuss theories and models of cognitive psychology using real-world examples and case scenarios
References
Anderson, J. R., (2015). Cognitive psychology and its implications (8th ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.
Carruthers, P. (1996). Language, Thought and Consciousness. Cambridge University Press.
Chomsky, N. (1976). Reflections on Language. Temple Smith.
Chomsky, N. (1988). Language and Problems of Knowledge. MIT Press.
Gopnik, A. (2001). Theories, language and culture. In: Language Acquistion and Conceptual Development, eds. M. Bowerman and S. Levinson. Cambridge University Press.
Lucy, J. (1992a). Language Diversity and Thought: a reformulation of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. Cambridge University Press.
Nelson, C. (1996). Language in Cognitive
Development. Cambridge University Press.
Vygotsky, L. (1934). Thought and Language. Trans. Kozulin, MIT Press, 1986.
Wynn, T. (2000). Symmetry and the evolution of the modular linguistic mind. In: Evolution and the Human Mind, eds. P. Carruthers and A. Chamberlain. Cambridge University Press.
These are a few that can be used, the only one that needs to be used is Anderson.
My position is that language is more interdependent. there are theories like vygotsky, piaget, and chomsky and language development, acquisition and neuropsychological schemas