PSY-235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Friending And Following, Russian Roulette, Hierarchical Organization
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Express our feelings, thoughts, experience, what we hope to experience. Allows us to communicate with at least one other person. If you have the words big and minuscule, big means big and minuscule means small even though the word is many characters. Words do not have to look like the thing it stands for. The word for tree does not have actually look like a tree within the spelling. Can arrange symbols in certain ways to say certain things. Cannot use a bunch of words, throw it in a blender, and see what comes out. Must have nouns in a certain spot, etc. Can use language for a limitless number of things. Can say everything we dream of saying. If a word does not exist, you can create one. Create new words for new concepts and new things. Unfriend became a word within the past 5 years. Smaller components that can combine to form larger things.
