Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Confirmation Bias, Factor Analysis, Problem Solving

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr T Biggs

Document Summary

Education - transfer of skills/knowledge from mind to mind. Last 50 000 years brain structure hasn"t changed, cognitive skills have. Symbolic (displacement = representation of non present objects through language), structure, Psycholinguists study psych properties of language and mechanisms that produce it. Surface structure = how symbols are arranged, rules, syntax. Deep structure = meaning of combined symbols, semantics (ambiguous can have 2 ds) Bottom up: phonemes (units of sound) English has 46, can go from 15 to 80 but 40-50 common: morpheme (unit of meaning) Prefixes,suffixes, count, more than 100 000 morphemes: words -> phrases > sentences. Stroke in male left hemi impairs speech more than females. Social learning: operant conditioning by parents reinforcing appropriate language (not really the case, truth reinforced more than syntax, telegraphic speech 2year 2 words noun + verb. Bilingualism: children differentiate language by 2 yea, better cognitive process, cortical map. Liguistic relativity hypothesis =whorf believed language determines thought, but only influences.