PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Acculturation, Noam Chomsky, Representativeness Heuristic
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Cognition mental processes; thinking, language: turning thoughts into words. Chapter 8: language & thought: language consists of symbols that convey meaning, rules for combining those. Symbols that can generate messages: language is symbolic, generative, and structured, the structure of language, language has a hierarchal structure, phonemes smallest speech units in a language that can be distinguished perceptually, about 100 different phonemes/sounds. Sound: morphemes smallest units of meaning in a language. Word: root words, pre-fixes, and suffixes, semantics concerned with understanding the meaning of words and word. After only 1 week of exposure: overextension when a child incorrectly uses a word to describe a wider set of. Objects or actions than it is meant to: underextension when a child incorrectly uses a word to describe a narrower set of. Objects or actions than it is meant to: combining words, 2 years old = forming sentences, telegraphic speech consists mainly of content words; less critical words are.
