Psychology 1000 Chapter 9: Psych Chapter 9 Textbook Notes
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Mental representations images, ideas, concepts and principles y humans have remarkable ability to create mental representations of world and to manipulate them in forms of language, thinking, reasoning and problem solving. Language y a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics scientific study of psychological aspects of language, such as how people understand, produce and acquire language. Tells us human thought and behaviour depend on more than physical structure of brain y over course of evolution, humans adopted more socially oriented lifestyle helping them y survive and reproduce. Language y allows us to share thoughts, feelings, goals, intentions, desires, needs and memories with y y other people. Puts customs and knowledge accrued over generations in oral and written forms (storytelling, books, instruction, mass media and the internet) Four properties essential to any language: symbols, structure, meaning and generativity.