PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Confirmation Bias, Belief Perseverance, Fallacy
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Sound. (not all languages use all the phenomes: morphemes smallest units of meaning in a language. Word: root words, pre-fixes, and suffixes (eg unfriendly has 3 morphenes un, friend, ly, semantics concerned with understanding the meaning of words and word combinations. 8 months old = learning semantics/meanings: using words, most kids grow up saying words like mama and dada because they"re easy to say b. Infants can understand more words than they can say i: children learn nouns before verbs. Fast mapping the process by which children map a word onto an underlying. Concept after only 1 week of exposure. (eg, child learns what tank is after first exposure to object: overextension when a child incorrectly uses a word to describe a wider set of iii. Objects or actions than it is meant to. (eg- child uses the word ball for anything round) Underextension when a child incorrectly uses a word to describe a narrower set of.
