Gardner and Gardner Aims and Context

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What was to be believed the crucial difference between Humans and animals?
"Can only humans use language?"
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Describe Premack's (1966) study
Beleived chimpanzees could acquire human language- taught Sarah using coloured shapes to represent words- acquired 130 signs and could make a sentence up to 8 words- e.g. Sarah give apple Mary
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Describe Chomsky's (1957) study
Humans can only acquire language- "Language Acquisition Device" (LAD)- Animals couldn't as they have no LAD
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Describe the research done into bees
Waggle dance- communicate to the hive where the pollen is.
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What were Gardners (1969) aims?
1.) To find out if they could teach a chimp to communicate using human language (ASL) 2.) To teach a chimp ASL as they are already good at using there hands and so could cope well with the mechanics of signing
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Describe Premack's (1966) study

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Beleived chimpanzees could acquire human language- taught Sarah using coloured shapes to represent words- acquired 130 signs and could make a sentence up to 8 words- e.g. Sarah give apple Mary

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Describe Chomsky's (1957) study

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Describe the research done into bees

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What were Gardners (1969) aims?

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