Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - American Sign Language, Drawing Pin, Functional Fixedness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Psycholinguistics an investigation of language functions, models, and brain relationships. This will require us to examine the evidence for 2 major views of human mental processes: modularity, connectionism. Properties of language: language is symbolic. Uses written signs, sounds, and gestures to refer to objects, events, ideas, and feelings. Words themselves are arbitrary bear no physical resemblance to the concept to which they refer: language has structure. Rules that govern how symbols can be combined: language is generative. Symbols can be combined in infinite ways. We can keep making new sentences infinitely: surface structure. The way symbols are combined within a given language. Consequence of applying rules to deep structure. Rules for = syntax: deep structure. The underlying meaning of the combined symbols. The smallest units of sound that are recognized. The smallest units of meaning in a language. Bilingualism: sensitive period for second language acquisition, positive correlates of bilingualism: