Psychology 2135A/B Lecture 17: Lecture 17 cog psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Minda

Document Summary

Sound into language: syntax (rules and structure of language, understanding language, text/sentence comprehension. Surface and deep structure: surface structure, words order, words, written letters, anything on surface closer to a perceptual level, deeper structure. Phrases: each phrase has its own word order and meaning, phrasing can change meaning, susan saw a man eating shark, the phrase with man determines the meaning, this has two possible interpretations depending where you break the phrase. If you want to convey the idea that someone is cooking apples, you would say they are cooking apples . If the apples were meant for cooking, you would emphasize the word. Cooking" in a different way, your prosody would change. Therefore someone being monotone would be hard to understand in this case: two possible meanings of the sentence. Thinking and language: language use influences how and what you think about, memory, inferences, predictions, decisions, we often use our language to direct these things.