Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Surface Roughness, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Phoneme

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

Humans have the unique ability to create mental representations. Mental representations include: images, ideas, concepts, and principles. Language is called the jewel in the crown of cognition . It builds off the resides of knowledge that resides in memory, and provide foundation for intelligent behaviour. Language consists of a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an in nite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics is the scienti c study of the psychological aspects of language, such as how people understand, produce, and acquire language. Due to complex environment the meed to create divisions of labour and cooperative social systems, and etc emerged as the need to develop a language in able to adapt. It has an agreed-on meaning to people who speak a certain language. Grammar is a set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined to create meaningful units of communication.