Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Language Acquisition Device, Metacognition, Problem Solving

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

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Consists of a system of symbols and rules in order to combine them to generate an infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics: scientific study of the psychological aspects of language, how people understand, produce, and acquire language. Human thought and behaviour depend on more than physical structure of brain. Evolution humans adopted a socially oriented lifestyle. Use of language evolved as people gathered to form larger social units. Every human culture, no matter how isolated, has developed language. Brain has inborn capacity to acquire any of the languages spoken. Conscious thinking takes the form of self-talk, or inner speech. Uses sounds, written characters, or other systems of symbols (e. g. , hand signs) to represent objects, events, ideas, feelings, and actions. Spanish, french, and german for dog: perro, chien, and hund. None of the words looks like dog. When spoken, nothing about the words sounds that makes it an intrinsically correct choice for representing the concept of dog .