PSYA02H3 Lecture : Lecture 2- Language.docx

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Caroline Barakat

Document Summary

Language allows us to get the contents of our working memory out of our heads, and into the heads of others. Working memory: doing mental work that allows you to solve novel problems. Language allows us to share our working memory with one another. We share our solutions to problems with other people. Animals have working memory, but they don"t have a rich language system (as opposed to humans) Language allows us to share solutions and knowledge with each other. Language underpins our social nature, and shows how we pact together, and are not solitary animals. When we learn things, we share it with each other , and allows us to bind together as a society. If you want to know what einstein (past ) people we can learn language , and understand thought processes of those in the past.