PSY100Y5 Chapter 8: PSY Chapter 8
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Cognition refers to the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge involves thinking: language: turning thoughts into words, what is language, consists of symbols that convey meaning, plus rates for combining those symbols, that can be used to generate an infinite variety of messages, symbolic allow us to refer to objects that may be in another place and to events that happened at another time, semantic the symbols used in a language are arbitrary in that no built in relationship exists between the look or sound of the words and the objects they stand for, generative endless array of novel messages, structured sentences must be structured in a limited amount of ways, the structure of language, phonemes i. ii. iii. Sentence must have subject and verb iv: syntax i. ii, milestones in language development, moving toward producing words i. ii. iii. iv. v.
