Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Deductive Reasoning, Long-Term Memory, Second Language

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas

Document Summary

Language system of symbols and rules to generate infinite possible meanings. Grammar rules of how symbols can be combined: noam chomsky"s grammar. Generatively finite symbols can be combined to an infinite number of messages. Displacement allows us to communicate things that aren"t physically present. Break down of language: phoneme no meaning on their own. S is a morpheme: words almost anything in english can be said with a vocabulary of 850 words, phrases o. Sentences: discourse sentences combined into paragraph, articles, books, conversations. Pragmatics knowledge of the practical aspects of using language: using language requires more than vocab and grammar. Women have language in both hemispheres, men have it in the eft. Acquire a language earlier in life, both languages us the same neural network o. Learn language later, it gets it"s own neural network &uses a different part of the brain o.