Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Animal Language, Inductive Reasoning, Metamemory

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

Document Summary

Language: language consists of a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics: the scientific study of the psychological aspects of language, such as how people understand, produce, and acquire language. Speech segmentation: perceiving where each word within a spoken sentence begins and ends. Pragmatics: knowledge of the practical aspects of using language. Language acquisition device (lad): an innate biological mechanism that contains the general grammatical rules that are common to all languages. Language acquisition support system (lass): this term was proposed by jerome. Bruner in order to represent factors in the social environment that facilitate the learning of a language. Problem solving schema: mental blueprints or step-by-step scripts for selecting information and solving specialized classes of problems. Algorithm: a formula or procedure that automatically generates correct solutions. Heuristics: these are general problem-solving strategies that we apply to certain classes of situations.