PSYC 213 Chapter 9: CH.9 txtbook notes.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Jelena Ristic

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Language: tree diagrams: a description of a process that proceeds from one level at which a number of relationships are simultaneously present to other levels at which these relationships are serially ordered. These rules allow a number of different sentences to be derived: grammatical transformations: rules operating on entire strings of symbols, converting them to new strings. an example of such a procedure is the passive transformation. John admired kevin. the pasive transformation, kevin was admired by john converts the string underlying the terminal string, to produce something like the following. This may be because the child comes to be able to represent more complex ways of thinking about things: two complimentary trends seem to have been established elaborating. Inner speech conveys the personal meanng of words rather than the conventional meaning: when someone is reading something with the presence of others, they may say amazing! shocking!