PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: New Culture Movement, Kanzi, Sound Card
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Sound: morphemes smallest units of meaning in a language. Word: root words, pre-fixes, and suffixes, semantics concerned with understanding the meaning of words and word combinations. Meaning: definition and connotation/implications, syntax system of rules that specify how words can be arranged into sentences. i. Sentence must have both noun phrase and verb phrase. Actions than it is meant to: combining words. 2 years old = forming sentences. i. j. Responses. (nature. : language acquisition device (lad) an innate mechanism or process that facilitates the learning of language, children are biologically equipped to learn language. f. Searching for a solution to a problem: heuristic a guiding principle/ rule of thumb used in solving problems or making. Frames of reference when orienting themselves in space. Relevant instances come to mind. the typical prototype of that event: conjunction fallacy when people estimate that the odds of two uncertain events happening.
