PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: 18 Months, Bonobo, Conjunction Fallacy
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After english and french, the languages most frequently spoken in canada are spanish, German, italian, hindi, arabic, chinese, russian, and hebrew. 19 million canadians identify english as their mother tongue. 4 million canadians identify french as their mother tongue. 4 million canadians identify a language other than english or french as their mother tongue. Cognition: refers to the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. The 1950s are referred to as the cognitive revolution (three contributing events occurred in. Herbert simon and allen newell described the rst computer program to successfully simulate human problem solving. Noam chomsky outlined a new model that changed the way psychologists studied language. George miller delivered a legendary discussion paper arguing that the capacity of short- term memory is seven (plus or minus two) items. Language: consists of symbols that convey meaning, plus rules for combining those symbols, that can be used to generate an in nite variety of messages.
