PSYC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Myelin, Neural Tube, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

Describe the differences between language and communication: language is a type of communication. Identify the 3 key properties of human language. Semanticity: to refer to the extent to which a form of communication is meaningful: represent something symbolically, the extent to which a language can use symbols to transmit meaningful message. Displacement: the language cannot be tied to the immediate time and place: you must convey a message that is either in the past, present or future. Phonemes: the basic distinctive speech sounds in a language that distinguish one word (e. g. rice from lice: word boundaries help us know when words end. Morphemes: the smallest unit of meaning in language: phonemes are combined to form these (some are bound or free) Semantics: the relationship between words and their meanings: can be crucuial for comprehension, e. g. prince william put the wedding band on kate"s finger.