PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pliers, Simon Effect, Stroop Effect
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Bilingualism treated as a secondary thing it is the norm worldwide but monolingual case is always seen as something primary. Arisen by accident countries in which the most research occurred, us, uk, australia, Bilingual is normal while monolingual is the special case. Can use code a and b with a switch. Does it matter which languages, some are actually considered dialects continuum of differences. Link it to use knows but never uses one way, understand but not speak it. Words are associations, pavlovian association between two things, concept and a sound pattern. What associations look like in the mind of a bilingual, dog and perro need to store again another onset, storing sound pattern somewhere else or one concept with two sound patterns linked up. Two for framing the debate: shared vs separate. Information is shared together each concept comes with two perceptual forms for each language.
