PSYC 100 Final: PSYCH 100 Final Exam Review.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

What is language: it is symbolic, it can be used to communicate novel ideas, it can be used to communicate about something not happening here and now. These three criteria can be referred to as (1) semanticity, (2) generativity, and (3) displacement, and are the three key properties of human language. *kicked the girl ball the: semantics joe broke up with mary. Vs. joe and mary are no longer a couple: pragmatics. Discriminations amongst phonemes begin when the ears process whatever sensory differences there are amongst sounds. Regions of the left auditory cortex system specialize in recognizing the special aspects of speech. ***there is a small delay between the initial sound of a consonant and the onset of the vibration of the vocal cords, known as the voice-onset time. The left hemisphere of the brain is (usually) dominant for interpreting language. The neural mechanisms that control speech production are located in the frontal lobes-