PSYA01H3 : Ch. 10 notes

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Languages are flexible systems that use symbols to express meaning. Focus of this chapter is to study how humans begin learning language in the earliest stages of life and how their language develops as they reach adulthood. A tool in our remembering and thinking. Extension of our long-term memory (writing notes) Enables us to think about very complex and abstract issues by encoding them as words and manipulating the words according to logical rules. Spking, lstning, wrting, rding = behaviours we can study. Linguists: study rules of language and describe what we do when we speak or write history of languages Psycholinguistics: a branch of psychology devoted to the study of verbal behaviour and are more concerned with human cognition than with the particular rules that describe language. They also study how adults use languages and how verbal abilities interact with other cognitive abilities. How verbal behaviour develops and how children learn to speak from their interactions with adults.

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