PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Sign Language

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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Info can only be communicated of both sides understand: an example would be different alarm calls for animals, often times the young make mistakes and sound the alarm calls. Low level of semanticity: bee dances only conveys limited info. Generativity: the ability to combine a limited number of words and rules to convey ideas, vocabulary and grammar creates complex and compelling ideas, this is (cid:449)hy other a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als usually do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)eet the (cid:272)riterio(cid:374) Defining language: language is defined as a socially agreed-upon system of arbitrary symbols that are combined in different ways to communicate ideas and feelings about different times and space, real and imagined. Linguistics: psycholinguistics study verbal behavior and cognition while linguists study rules, psycholinguistics is a branch of cognitive psychology, studies the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language. Levels of language analysis: recognize the sounds being said. Identify the words and associate the meaning: analyze the syntax of the message.