Psychology 1100E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Temporal Lobe, Reinforcement, Frontal Lobe
10 Apr 2020
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Human thought and behaviour depend on more than the physical structure of the brain. Structure of the brain not really evolved over the past 50000 years, but cognitive and linguistic skills have. Some evolutionary theorists believe that the use of language evolved as people gathered to form larger social units. Every human culture, no matter how isolated or remote has developed one or more languages. Hard to imagine functioning without language - share thoughts, feelings, goals, intentions, desires, needs, memories. Language is a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an infinite number of messages and meanings. Encompasses four properties that are essential to any language: symbols, structure, meaning, generativity. Uses sounds, written characters, or some other system of symbols to represent objects, events, ideas, feelings and actions. A languages grammar is a set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined to create meaningful units of communication.
