Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Testees, 3 Women, Restrictiveness

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

Document Summary

Mental representation include images, ideas, concepts, principles: humans have ability to create and manipulate these in the form of language, thinking, reasoning, and problem solving. Consists of a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols to generate an infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics scientific study of the psychological aspects of languages (how people understand, produce, acquire language) Brain has been in its present form for 50,000 years: time lag to paintings and writing occurred. Time lag shows human thought/behaviour depends on more than just brain structure. Evolutionary theorists believe that use of language evolved as people gathered to form larger social units: environmental demands increased (e. g. need for social custom/passage of knowledge), and development of language made it easier to deal with these demands. Human brain has innate capacity to acquire any of the 5,000-6,000 languages of the world. Conscious thinking usually takes the form of self-talk/inner speech.