PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Nicaraguan Sign Language, Intelligence Quotient, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Psyc 100: winter study guide. Describe the components of language: phonemes, morphemes, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Describe the differences between language and communication. Semanticity: the extent to which a language can use symbols to transmit meaningful messages. Phonemes: basic distinctive units of speech sounds in a language that distinguish one word from another; minimum units of sound. Morphemes: combination of phonemes that are the smallest unit of meaning within a language. Syntax: also termed syntactical rules; grammar rules of a particular language for combining words to form phrases, clauses and sentences. Syntax is learned implicitly and there are several cues that aid this learning: word order, word class, function words, content words, affixes. Semantics: meaning of words and the rules that govern those meanings, crucial for comprehension. Categorical perception: tendency of perceivers to disregard physical stimuli differences and perceive them as the same.