Epoch TOPICS CONTEXTS PERSPECTIVES ACTIVITIES METHODS FIGURES HELP TIME LINE Acknowledgements ACTIVITY 3 Exploring persepctives ACTIVITY 1 Using the timeline ACTIVITY 2 Using the biographies ACTIVITY 5 Using the figures, methods, perspectives, topics and context icons ACTIVITY 4 Exploring Topics Ainsworth Allport Baddeley Baron-Cohen Asperger Asch Binet Bartlett Bilig Belbin Bowlby Bruce Buss Cattell Ceci Byrne Bruner Bryant Cohen Cosmides Chomsky Cooper Charcot Conway Damasio Darwin Costa Dawkins Csikszentmihalyi Crick Erikson Eysenck Ekman Descartes Ebbinghaus Dennet Frith Freud Anna Freud Sigmund Falschung Fodor Festinger Goffman Gibson Goodall Galton Goldberg Gathercole Gregory Humphrey James Heider Janet Goodman Kahneman Lazarus Jung Kanner Klein Kelly Mayo McCrae Luria Loftus Lorenz Maslow Neisser Norman Morton Milgram Milner Mead Potter Plomin Piaget Pinker Penfield Pavlov Tajfel Sperry Skinner Saywitz Spears Rogers Triesman Turner Tulving Tooby Taylor Thorndike Weiskrantz Vrij Aldert Warrington Watson Vygotsky Tversky Wundt Zimbardo Whiten Wetherell You can check your answers against ours You can check your answers against ours You can check your answers against ours You can check your answers against ours You can check your answers against ours

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Neurological basis of language. Noam Chomsky postulated a 'language acquisition device', an innate mechanism in the brain which allows children to acquire language relatively easily. Research on brain damaged patients has shown that certain areas of the brain play a crucial role in language. Similar research has on brain damaged patients has indicated the essential roles in perception, thinking, or language of other brain areas. url anchor
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Note Node Jerry Fodor Jerry A. Fodor was born in 1935 in New York City, and received his PhD in Philosophy at Princeton in 1960. url anchor

Note Node His 1983 book The Modularity of Mind defends a strong version of faculty psychology, according to which the mind consists of informationally encapsulated, low-level perceptual modules which feed information to higher-level central cognitive processes that are non-modular. url anchor

Note Node Since moving to Rutgers University in 1988, Fodor has been an ardent critic of connectionist models of cognitive phenomena, arguing that they cannot account for the rationality of thought. url anchor

Note Node Until 1986 Fodor was on the faculty at MIT, where he became an early exponent of Chomsky's program in linguistics, collaborated in psycholinguistic research, and developed his own strongly nativistic theory. url anchor

Note Node According to Fodor, only modular cognitive processes can be studied scientifically. url anchor

Note Node Fodor defended the claim that thinking invokes a language-like medium in The Language of Thought (19 75). url anchor

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