Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Metacognition, Broccoli, Eleanor Rosch

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Anita Cramp

Document Summary

Mental representations: cognitive representations of the world, including images, ideas, concepts, and principles, that are the foundations of thinking and problem solving. Language: a system of symbols and rules for combining them that can produce an almost infinite number of possible meanings and messages. Jewel in the crown of cognition and human essence . Advanced cognitive process that builds up a large store of knowledge and is foundation for intelligent behaviour. Psycholinguistics: the scientific study of the psychological aspects of language such as how people understand, produce and acquire language. Evolved as people gathered to form larger social units so people could communicate, pass on knowledge and cooperate (made it easier for people to survive and adapt to environmental needs) Human brain has an inborn capacity to acquire language. Even in our conscious takes form as self-talk (voice inside your head) Allows us to share thoughts, feelings, goals, memories etc. with other people and learn new things.