PSY-P 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Body Language, Problem Solving, Decision-Making
19 Apr 2017
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Cognition- way in which information processed and manipulated for purpose of remembering, thinking, knowing: helps with: Language- rule-based system for combining arbitrary (meaningless) symbols to produce infinitely many meaningful statements. Communication- much broader than language (encompasses it); sending message between sender and receiver: ex. (cid:862)bod(cid:455) la(cid:374)guage(cid:863) is part of (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)atio(cid:374), (cid:271)ut (cid:374)ot la(cid:374)guage. Speech- verbal way of using language; produced through combination of specific motor behaviors (breathing, movement of tongue/jaw/lips) Connection between symbol and meaning is arbitrary; no reason they should be related; innately independent and unrelated, but linguistic association puts them together. /d @ d i: / (english phonetic spelling) All of these represent same concept in different ways: hierarchical and creative. Language has hierarchical structure- can combine words in new/interesting ways to come up with infinite combinations. Syntax- rules for combining words (word order, sentence structure: dictates how we go from words phrases sentences.
