PSY374H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Neurolinguistics, Experimental Psychology, Behaviorism
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Psycholinguistics: is the study of how individuals comprehend, produce, and acquire language the psychological study of language is psycholinguistics. The study of psycholinguistics is part of the field of cognitive science. Cognitive science: reflects the insight of psychology, linguistics and to a lesser extent, fields such as artificial intelligence, neuroscience and philosophy (to study the mind and mental process) Psycholinguistics stresses the knowledge of language and cognitive processes involved in ordinary language use. Psycholinguistics are also interested in social rules involved in language use and the brain mechanisms associated with language. Contemporary interest in psycholinguistics began in the 1950s, although important precursors existed earlier in the 20th century. Most young ppl develop jargon, that is more meaningful to those of the same age then older or younger ppl. Psychology of language deals with the mental processes that are involved in language use. Some of the topics studied by cognitive scientists have been problem solving, memory, imagery and language.
