PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Kanzi, Foreign Accent Syndrome, Operant Conditioning
14 Oct 2012
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When we communicate we send and receive information from another individual or group. There are many different ways of communication, however language may be the most complex. Language is uniquely human form of communication that is symbolic, involves random accusations, is productive and is rule governed. Researchers have outlined three criteria which outline a true language: language is symbolic. Such as cookie is symbol for an actual cookie you can directly refer to it even without it being present. Words = symbols: language involves arbitrary (random) association. Things are just given random names such as if a random shape was drawn out, i created it, so i could name it anything random. *not all forms of communication involve random associations such as dogs growling to another: language is productive. Language is designed to use a small number of components to produce & understand a wide range of symbols = sentences.
