PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Prospect Theory, Prototype Theory, Electrodermal Activity

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Christopher had a talent for languages, even when he was very young but his intelligence is very low. System of communication to allow transmission of messages: waggle dance by bees to direct others to flowers, warning calls of vervet monkeys. Language - a system for communicating with others using signals that are combined according to rules of grammar and convey meaning. Grammar - a set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages. Humans are different from other species: we have a complex human language with ideas and concepts, with infinite ways of expressing this, humans use words to refer to intangible things. B and p are separate phonemes: phonological rules how phonemes can be combined to produce speech. Eg. initial sound ts is acceptable in german but not in english. If rules are violated accented speech sounds: morpheme the smallest meaningful unit of language.