Psychology 1100E Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Psych, Aphasia, Phoneme

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1100E
• Professor: Irene Cheung

Document Summary

Humans are better able to solve abstract prblems and create and use mental representations. Mental representations images, ideas, concepts, knowledge stored in memory. Language is not uniquely human; animals communicate with sounds and gestures. Language is referential; symbols refer to something. Surface structure syntax ; the way symbols are combined. Idioms have no deep meaning; no meaning in terms of surface structure; do not literally mean what they say. Phonemes basic sounds: 40-45 in the english language, not letters!! Morphemes combinations of phonemes: s" can be a phoneme or a morpheme. Pidgin when speakers are in close contact and need to communicate: the language is basic enough to get the points across, no consistency; depends on what needs to be said. Creole similar to established languages: children invented it out of the pidgin language, grammatical rules, sophisticated. The right hemisphere deals with spatial language, sign language. They understand what is being said around them but they can"t respond to it.