PSYC 100 Chapter : Week 13-17 .docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

Language is a method for communicating information, including ideas, thoughts and emotions. Humans aren"t the only species capable of communicating bees use dances to indicate to other bees where a source of nectar is located. Not all forms of human communication may qualify as language. Tufnel"s trilogy: a musical trilogy in d minor (very sad) Henry wadsworth: music is a universal language every key signature and chord change carries a specific emotional message that can be understood universally. Flowers specially arranged can also be used to convey certain messages. Information can be communicated only if both the sender and receiver understand what"s going on. Vervet monkeys display different type of alarm calls for different types of predators (eg. one for snakes, and a different one for eagles) For the eagle call, the troop runs to the nearest set of trees. The snake call results in some of the monkeys acting as a group to harass the snake until it leaves.