PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mcgurk Effect, Closed Captioning, Headache
4 Apr 2014
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Page 294-317, 24 pages page 1 of 11. What is language: language: a system of communication using sounds or symbols that enables us to express our feelings, thoughts, ideas, and experiences in either spoken or written form. This allows the remarkable feat of communication: this alone is too broad for human language, can apply to animal calls or behaviours like bee dances. The universality of language: the need to communicate is universal. Everyone with normal capacities develops a language and learns to follow its complex rules, even though they may not be aware of these rules consciously. Evidence against behaviourism that as children learn language, they produce sentences that they have been taught or reinforced by parents ( i hate you, mommy! : psycholinguistics: field of psychological study of language. How is language represented in the mind, to make connections between. Page 294-317, 24 pages page 2 of 11: acquisition:
