PSYC 100 Study Guide - Nicaraguan Sign Language, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Intelligence Quotient

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

Document Summary

Language: method of communication information including ideas, thoughts and emotions. Communication: animals use verbal and physical cues to express something. Difference: all animals communicate but very few animals use language. Identify the three key properties of human language. Semanticity: symbols; extent that communication can meaningfully represent ideas, events and object symbolically. Generativity: ability to combine a limited amount of words and rules to generate an unlimited number of sentences. Displacement: can convey messages about things that do not take place here or now. Describe the components of language: phonemes, morphemes, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Phonemes: basic distinctive speech sounds that distinguish one word from another. Two types of morphemes: free (stand alone and have meaning) and bound (must attach to another morpheme to have meaning) Syntax: all languages have syntax and grammar and follow certain principles and rules. Pragmatics: knowledge of the world that help to communicate and comprehend.