PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Availability Heuristic, Richard E. Nisbett, Conjunction Fallacy
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Cognition refers to the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. A 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. Language symbols are exible in that a variety of somewhat di erent objects may be called by the same name(ex. lamps) A limited number of symbols can be combined in an in nite variety of ways to generate an endless array of novel messages. Rules govern the arrangement of words into phrases and sentences: the structure of language, phonemes: Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning in a language: there are 50000 english morphemes,which include root words as well as pre xes and su xes. Syntax is a system of rules that specify how words can be arranged into sentences: ex. a sentence must have both a subject and a verb, milestones in language development:
