Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Language Acquisition Device, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Psychological Testing

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Mental representations cognitive representations of the world (images, ideas) that are the foundation of thinking and problem solving. Language- a system of symbols and rules for combining them that can produce an almost in nite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics the scienti c study of the psychological aspects of language, such as how people understand, produce and acquire language. Grammar a set of the rules that dictates how symbols can be combined to create meaningful units of communication. Syntax the rules that govern word order in a language. Semantics the meaning of words and sentences. Generativity symbols of language can be combined to generate an in nite number of messages that have novel meaning. Displacement language allows us to communicate about events nd objects that are not physically present. Surface structure words and organization of a spoken or written sentence; two sentences with different surface structure may have the same meaning.