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Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Phrase Structure Rules, Syntactic Ambiguity, Syntactic Category

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6 Feb 2023
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Psychology
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Psychology 2134A/B
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Phrase structure trees: a visualization of phrase structure, your mother wears snowshoes. Passive sentence tree: the ball was hit to the outfielder. Time course of comprehension: how do we comprehend sentences, theories of parsing fall into two categories: Is sentence processing bottom up: visual/auditory word recognition, early processing, sentence comprehension: Later" processing: two main views, generative tradition: modular, autonomous. Ambiguity types: lexical ambiguity, jill saw the nut lying in the bowl, jill saw the nut walking down the hall, lexical ambiguity is the presence of two or more possible meanings for a single word. The girl gave the letter to her boyfriend to the postman last week: ambiguous sentences like this are called garden path sentences. [the brother] [of the principal who was : vs. [the brother [of the principal]][who was arrested, late closure minimizes processing or working memory load, attaching to most recent np minimizes time spent parsing sentence.

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“...how much of our behavior is a consequence of our unique and special qualities, the individual differences that differentiate us from other people? Conversely, how much reflects the culture and society in which we live, stemming from universal principles that underlie the behavior of all humans? Psychologists who rely on the neuroscience perspective tend to look for universal principles of behavior, such as how the nervous system operates or the way certain hormones automatically prime us for sexual activity. Such psychologists concentrate on the similarities in our behavioral destinies despite vast differences in our upbringing. In contrast, psychologists who employ the humanistic perspective focus more on the uniqueness of every individual. They consider every person’s behavior a reflection of distinct and special individual qualities.”