Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Representativeness Heuristic, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Morpheme

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

Document Summary

Mental representations: images, ideas, concepts and principles for problem solving. Language: system of symbols and combinations to generate messages. Psycholinguistics: scientific study of the psychological aspects of language. Grammer: set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined and used how to change tense. Syntax: rules that govern the order of words. Symbols of language can be combined to generate an infinite number of messages that have novel meaning. Language allows us to communicate event and objects that aren"t present. Phenome: elementary building block (smallest unit of speech) Bottom up processing: elements are analyzed and then combined to form a unified perception. Step 2: feed information to other cells that perceive them as letters. Step 3: translate to auditory codes, to understand with. Speech segmentation: determining where each word begins and ends. Use previous knowledge to determine when a word could end. We don"t actually go quieter at the end of words.