PSYA02H3 Chapter : Psychology part 2 textbook notes.docx

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Psychology part 2 textbook notes: psycholinguistics : a branch of psychology devoted to the study of verbal behaviour. Speech and comprehension: perception of speech , recognition of speech sounds , auditory cortex, located in the temporal lobe, has the highest amount of activity when distinguishing human vocalization to non-human vocalization. Ex : praglet: whole word reading: reading by recognizing a word as whole; sight reading . Information processing approach: an approach to the study of intelligence that focuses on the types of skills people use to think and to solve problems. The major and minor premises are assumed to be true and the truth of the conclusion is to be evaluated by deductive reasoning. (philosopy type of mind fucking, dogs bark, pete barks, pete is dog) Intelligence quotient (iq): a simplified single measure of general intelligence; by definition, the ratio of a person"s mental age to his or her chronological age.