Language and Thought

1 Course Unit

This course describes current theorizing on how the human mind achieves high-level cognitive processes such as using language, thinking, and reasoning. The course discusses issues such as whether the language ability is unique to humans, whether there is a critical period to the acquisition of a language, the nature of conceptual knowledge, how people perform deductive reasoning and induction, and how linguistic and conceptual knowledge interact. Fall or Spring Also Offered As: PSYC 1310 Prerequisite: PSYC 0001 OR COGS 1001 1 Course Unit