Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Belief Bias, Metacognition, Inferior Frontal Gyrus

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Mental representations: images, ideas, concepts and principles. Psycholinguistics: study of the psychological aspect of language; how people understand. Language: consists of a system of symbols it. Grammar rules of how symbols can be combined. Syntax rules that govern order of words. Generatively symbols can be combined to an create infinite number of messages. Displacement allo(cid:449)s us to (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)ate thi(cid:374)gs that are(cid:374)"t ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)ally present (imaginary, past, future) Human language structure hierarchy: phonemes sounds or letters, morphemes words, prefixes, suffixes, plurals, words complete words, phrases multiple words, sentence, discourse multiple sentences. *exam: know how many morphemes are in a sentence. Bottom up: patterns syllables meaning. Top down: interpreting things based on expectations. Speech segmentation: perceiving where a spoken sentence begins and ends: certain words are more likely to be at the end of the sentence. Women have language in both hemispheres, men have it in the left. If you acquire a language earlier in life, both languages use the same neural network.