Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Inferior Temporal Gyrus, Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Language Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Ronald R Holden

Document Summary

Different sets of knowledge (communicate thought), social custom. Division of labor and cooperative social system. Symbolic: arbitrary symbols represent specific objects, actions, events, ideas, feelings, words (written), sounds, signs (hand sign, don"t usually look or sound like the represented object (e. g. dog ): people has agreed-on meaning, vary across languages. Help you understand what other people are saying. Generative: symbols of language can be combined to generate an infinite number of messages, can express ideas that have never been expressed before. The hierarchical structure of language: phonemes (sounds, letters) morphemes words phrases sentences discourse (conversation, paragraphs, etc. , phonemes: most basic unit of speech sounds. They have no inherent meaning but changing a phoneme changes meaning of the word. Specific sets of phonemes in each language; 100 in total but no language uses them all. African: clicking sound: morphemes: smallest units of meaning in a language; the, to, ed, pre. Some are words, some are suffixes or prefixes.