PSYC 100 Final: Winter Term Exam Notes

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Information is communicated when both the sender and receiver know what is going on: ex: vervet monkeys in eastern africa gives different calls based on danger or food. Linguistics is the study of language and linguists study the rules of language. Psycholinguistics: study of acquisition, comprehension, and production of language. Affix: prefixes and suffixes come under this category. Speech perception: children of less than one year can distinguish between all the phonemes in all world languages but as they grow up and learn the language they are being raised in, they lose the ability to distinguish. There are three types of language: oral, written, and internal. The above was about oral and internal. Written language: visual symbol system imposed on oral language. To read, the visual symbol system needs to be mapped on the auditory symbol system: learn letters of alphabet and associated sounds, have phonemic awareness; notice that certain groups of words all have the same ending.