Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Inductive Reasoning, Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Mental representations: cognitive representations of the world, including images, ideas, concepts, and principles that are the foundations of thinking and problem solving. Language: a system of symbols and rules for combining them that can produce an almost infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics: the scientific study of the psychological aspects of language, such as how people understand, produce and acquire language. Grammar: the set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined to create meaningful units of communication. Semantics: rules for connecting symbols to what they represent. Generativity: a characteristic of symbols of language that can be combined to generate an infinite number of messages that have novel meaning. Displacement: the capacity of language to represent objects and conditions that are not physically present. Surface structure: a linguistic term for the words and organization of a spoken or written sentence; two sentences with different surface structure may still mean the same thing.