PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Anagram, Name Calling, Daniel Kahneman
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Cognition- refers to the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge, thinking cognitive psychologists investigate the complexities o f language, inference problem solivng secision making and reasoning. Language consists of symbols that convey meaning, plus rules for combining those symbols that can be used to generate an infinite variety of messages. 1-lnaugage is symbolic- objects, shymbols, written words to represent objects events and ideas , another time/place eg broke a lamp at work yesterday. 2-langugage is semantic meaningful lack of relationship between the look or sound of words and objects they stand for ege pen in 3 english french and spanish shared meaning for these language speakers. English- 40 phonemes 26 letters a letter in the alphabet can represent more than one phoneme. Eg a in father, had, call- each pronounciation corresponds to a different phoneme some phonemes are combos of letters eg thb. Morphemes-the smallest units of meaning in a language english has 50000.
