PSYC 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Schizophrenia, Bounded Rationality, Confirmation Bias
7 Dec 2017
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Language: a set of symbols used to communicate. Language production: the structured and conventional expression of thoughts through words. Language comprehension: the process of understanding spoken, written, or signed language. Phoneme: the smallest unit of sound in a language, an individual sound. Phonology: the study of how individual sounds or phonemes are used to produce language. Morpheme: the smallest units of a language that convey meaning. Semantics: the study of how meaning in language is constructed of individual words and sentences. Syntax: the system for using words (semantics) and word order to convey meaning (grammar) Pragmatics: the practical aspect of language usage, including speech pace, gesturing, and body language. Telegraphic speech: speech that consists of minimalistic sentences. 50 words: 2 years of age: telegraphic speech, only essential words (want cookie), dropped words are called grammatical morphemes, 3 years of age: pragmatics, pause between sentences, statements vs. requests, average.
