PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Postdevelopment Theory, Operant Conditioning, Social Learning Theory
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One consequence of the symbolic nature of language is that the words we use for concepts are arbitrary assigned. Allow various languages to use different sounds to label the same idem. Onomatopoeia: examples of words whose sounds are associated with their meanings: productive: Allows its users to combine a series of representative symbols to express novel meaning in groupings of words that may never have been presented together before. It is designed to use a small number of components to produce and understand a wide range of symbols: rule governed. Each combination must follow a de ned set of rules in order to make sense. While productivity concept holds, the in nite combinations of symbols are constrained by the rules of each language. Different languages have different rules about how symbols can be combined. * although each language is composed of four important parts, how they are de ned differs across languages.
