PSYC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mild Cognitive Impairment, Myelin, Parental Investment
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Read: modules 8. 1 (p. 272-280), 8. 3 (p. 292-303). Language: method for communicating information, including ideas, thoughts and emotions. Language must have: generativity: (malcolm x) language combines a limited number of words and a few rules to convey many ideas, displacement: the ability to convey messages that are not tied to the immediate context. Phonology: rules that govern the sounds (phonemes) of language. Phonemes combined to form morphemes the smallest unit of language that is not redundant. Two types: free and bound: free: meaningful and stand alone as words, bound: only meaningful when with other morpheme. Semantics: meanings of words and rules that govern those meanings. Pragmatics: knowledge of the world as it relates to understanding and using language. Language development: children learn language effortlessly, fast-mapping: concept can learn a word after as little as one exposure. Broca"s and wernicke"s aphasia: broca"s: understand speech but difficulty speaking (expressive, wernicke"s: can produce speech but cant comprehend it (receptive)
