Psychology 2135A/B Chapter 10: Cognitive Notes.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Theory: we learn to speak correctly through paired-associates learning each word in a sentence serves as a stimulus for the word that follows it. Infinite number of sentences in a language, therefore, has to be infinite number of associations: 2. Does not account for the relation among nonadjacent words (ignores the hierarchical. Grammar: a set of rules for producing correct sentences in a language. Language: a collection of symbols and rules for combining these symbols, which can be used to create an infinite variety of messages: symbolic: the use of symbols, such as spoken or written words, to represent ideas. Grammatical rules partition the sentence into a non phrase ( the strangers ) and a verb phrase ( talked to the players ) Morphemes: the smallest units of meaning in a language (include stem words, prefixes, and suffixes) Phonemes: the basic sounds of a language. Three aspects of language: grammar (forming phrases) Divide sentence into noun and verb phrase.