Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bradycardia, Cockroach, Peripheral Nervous System

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

To make sound: vibrate vocal chords, and air comes up from lungs through vocal cavity. Morphemes: meaningful units i. e. strangers strange er s three morphenes: strange adjective, er change into noun, s plural i. e. crosswords crossword s two morphenes. Given a word, find the number of morphemes. Syntax: arranging the elements in a meaningful way: proper structure and importance of grammar. Noun phrase nominal adjective, noun. Verbal humor uses play on words and syntax. > formal thinking: ability to appreciate logical inconsistency and ambiguous meaning. Lexical ambiguity: confusion or double meaning of words (sound the same) I work as a baker because i knead the dough. Semantic ambiguity: confusion of meaning: kids progress from phonological & lexical to syntactic & semantic. 1-3: coos, cries, babble, etc: this happens even in deaf infants. Babbling has no conventional meaning, but takes on a social quality. Sensitivity to foreign contrasts (different languages) drops as infant approaches 12 months.