PSYC 100 Final: Objectives Psychology - Complete Notes for the Course
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Language is a method for communicating information, including ideas, thoughts, and emotions. Language is differentiated from communication because of semanticity, generativity, and displacement. Identify the three key properties of human language. Semanticity: the ability of the system to meaningfully represent ideas, events, and objects symbolically. Generativity: the ability to use a limited number of words and rules to combine words into a virtually unlimited number of sentences. Displacement: the ability to use language to convey messages that are not tied to the immediate context. Describe the components of language: phonemes, morphemes, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Phonemes: the basic distinctive speech sounds in a language that distinguish one word (e. g. , rice) from another (lice). Morphemes: the smallest unit of meaning in language: free morphemes are meaningful on their own and can stand alone as words, bound morphemes are meaningful only when combined with other morphemes to form words. e. g. )