Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Motor Coordination, Intellectual Disability, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

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

Document Summary

Psychology 1000: chapter 9 thought, language, and intelligence. Language: a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can produce an almost infinite number of possible messages or meanings. Is symbolic: uses signs or gestures to refer to objects, events, ideas, and feelings: has structure: rules that govern how symbols can be combined to create meaningful communication units. Is generative: symbols can be combined to generate an almost infinite number of messages that can have novel meaning. Displacement: past, future, and imaginary events and objects that are not physically present can be symbolically represented and communicated through the medium of language. Psycholinguists: study the psychological properties of language and the underlying mechanisms that produce it. Language has a surface structure and a deep structure. Surface structure: the way symbols are combined within a given language: syntax: the rules for combination of symbols of a language (grammar); order is important.