PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Syphilis, Collectivism, Neuroticism

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

Cognition psychology as a field investigates: language, inference, problem solving, decision making, reasoning. Language is defined as consisting of symbols that convey meaning, plus rules for combining those symbols, that can be used to generate an infinite variety of messages. The presence of older siblings provides a language environment conducive to acquiring language pragmatics. Language disorders: 90 95% of cases, damage is to the left hemisphere. Research does not support the assumption that bilingualism has a negative effect on language development or on cognitive development. With american sign language, a complex language of hand gestures and facial expressions used by deaf people, in four years, chimpanzee washoe could learn to acquire a sign vocabulary of roughly. 160 words and combine these words into simple sentences, such as. This theory also proposed that humans are equipped with a language acquisition device (lad) an innate mechanism or process that facilitates the learning of language.