PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Representativeness Heuristic, Intellectual Disability, Dendrite

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Vessela Stamenova

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The association of arbitrary symbols with specific meanings to express thoughts and emotions. Language is: symbolic, semantic (carries a meaning), generative, and structured. Psycholinguistics: the study of verbal behaviour: interested in human cognition (development of language, interactions with other cognitive abilities) Phonemes: the smallest units of sound that allow us to distinguish the meaning of words. English: 40 phonemes: single letters, combinations (/ch/, /th/) Voice-onset time: the delay between the initial sound of a consonant and the onset of vibration of the vocal cords. Voiced vs. unvoiced consonants: /p/ vs. /b/ If listening to another language with different phonemes, you will have difficulty learning and understanding the language because you don"t recognize the phonemes. Pet study: natural speech, unintelligible speech, preserved phonemic properties, intelligible speech, but different phonemic properties lacking. Superior temporal lobe in left hemisphere responded to phonemic properties of sound only (1, 2) with meaning. Anterior portion only if sound is intelligible with phonemic properties.