Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Temporal Lobe, Deductive Reasoning, Frontal Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Mental representations include images, ideas, concepts and principles. Language is a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics is the scientific study of the psychological aspects of language eg. how people understand, produce and acquire language. The use of language may have evolved as people gathered to form larger social units. Helps us evolve as social creatures as we need to communicate with each other. We also use language in our conscious thinking. Language also serves as a learning mechanism. We can ask for directions or read about a topic to learn. Uses symbols to represent things and these symbols are arbitrary (the symbol has an agreed-on meaning to people) Has grammar : the set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined to created mingful units of communication. Syntax: the rules that govern the order of words: conveys meaning.