PSYCHOLINGUISTICS PARADIGM: COGNITIVIST AND RASIONALIST

•  COGNITIVIST

The cognitivists reject the behaviorist. They believe that all people in this world learn the language, not because they have the same process, but because they have an innate capacity to acquire the language as a normal maturation process. This capacity is universal. It means that is not possible to explain without postulating an innate mechanism of this type which is quite defined.

In cognitive, children are born with an innate capacity for language developmet. The human brain is ready for processing the language. The children have LAD or language acquisition device. They use it to understand the utterances that they heard around them.

Cognitive focuses on the inner mental activities. People can understand the language by opening the black box in their mind, the mental activities are thingking, memory, knowing, and problem-solving need to be explored. The response to the behaviourism is that people do not have an animals program, people are rasional beings who required active participation in learning language, and behaviour is a consequence of his mind. Changing their behaviour, just as an indication of what’s happening in their head. Cognitive uses the metaphor of the mind like a computer: the informations come in, then it is processing, and then producing something. 

•  RASIONALIST

Rationalist term derived from the ratio of (latin) or rationalism (uk) which means “common mind”. Therefore, philosophical rationalis means that the stress for reasoning or reflection as a basis to get the truth.

Rationalism was introduced for the first time in the study of philosophy is famous for its exper ir Rene Descartes. This ideology assumes that knowledge is the ratio of resources. Because it actually comes from the ratio.

Rationalism says that true recognition comes from the ratio, so the introduction of the senses is vague reconition. Therefore, this theory assumes that innate factors have no role in human development, but only the environment that determines it. Rationalism is often observed ratio throughtly and assume that the ratio should be checked for comprehense human behaviour itself. Therefore, this is called a holistic ideology and associated with nativism, idealism, and mentalism.