PSYA02H3 Lecture : Chapter notes
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Spoken words by themselves are highly organized patterns of motor. It is seen in the case of carl bennett where under the influence of tourette"s syndrome, they are simple behaviours such as twitching and finger tapping. When organized into language, they can communicate the complex steps of a surgical procedure. Bennett was able to suppress the random words whenever he needed to communicate clearly and precisely. Our use of language can be private (talking to oneself) but the development of language involves social interactions among our early ancestors. Speaking and writing are social behaviours as we learn them from other people and use them to communicate with them. We also use language as a tool in our own remembering and thinking. Language also enables us to think about very complex and abstract issues by encoding them in words and then manipulating the words according to logical rules.
