TAL Tasks

Development of Thought & Nature of Language

Growth and Development

• Read Stangor textbook chapter 6 "Growing & Development" (in three parts) and chapter 9 (one part). Read it online, download to print, or listen.
• Growing & Development (chapter introduction) (Download and listen options on the top of this page)
• Conception and Prenatal Development
• Infancy and Childhood: Exploring and Learning
• Communicating with Others: The Development and Use of Language
• Watch video lecture 5 "Development of Thought" (in six parts). A transcript Links to an external site. is provided for notes and review. Answer the (5) questions following each video.
• Jean Piaget, Stage Theory and Its Limits
• The Modern Science of Infant Cognition
• Babies and the Social World
• Question and Answer on Learning and Development
• Review of Studies Presented in Class; Autism
• Question and Answer on Autism

Language

• Watch video lecture 6 "Nature of Language" (in seven parts). A transcript Links to an external site. is provided for notes and review. Answer the (6) questions following each video.
• The Scientific Notion of Language and Structure
• Phonology: A System of Sounds
• Morphology: A System of Words
• Syntax: Communicating Complicated Ideas
• Question and Answer on Language Structure
• Noam Chomsky and Language Acquisition
• The Time Course of Language Acquisition
• Watch video lecture 7 "Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language" (in three parts). A transcript Links to an external site. is provided for notes and review.Answer the (3) questions following each video.
• Non-human Communication
• The Relationship between Language and Thought
• Question and Answer on Language

• Participate in the discussion on Kanzi, and Ape of Genius.
• Complete the module assessment quiz at the end of this module.