PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Emergentism, Availability Heuristic, Functional Fixedness
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Cognition: refers to the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. Phonemes: smallest speech units in a language that can be distinguished perceptually. Morphemes: the smallest units of meaning in a language. Semantics: area of language concerned with understanding the meaning of words and word combinations. Syntax: a system of rules that specify how words can be arranged into sentences. A simple rule would be that a sentence must have a subject and a verb. How children learn to pronounce words, then use of single words and then ability to combine words to form sentences. Infants are well prepared to learn language- acquisition of phonology. Babies learn the structure of their native language before even speaking it. Optimal periods for the different subsystems involved in language acquisition. During first 6 months babies coo cry and laugh. Then they bable, and then produce sounds that are corresponding to phonemes of their native language ( eg. lalalalalalala ).
