Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-12: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Auditory Cortex, Language Acquisition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

1970: genie (locked in a room) -> vocabulary stop it and no more -> not enough improvement. 1982: dominique (locked in a basement, occasional visitors) -> quick progress in acquiring language. Mental representations images, ideas, concepts and principles (ex. reading) that makes humans unique. Language system of symbols + rules for combining symbols to generate infinite meanings. Hypothesis: all organisms can relay info within species but only humans use language. Common feature to all human languages: rules for combining words into sentences. Psycholinguistics study of psychological aspects of language (ex. understood/produced/acquired) Brain achieved present form 50,000 years ago (brain didn"t change much but cognitive skills did) Humans adopted more socially oriented lifestyle that helped with survival/reproduction. Symbolic + structured (symbols are arbitrary -> dog doesn"t mean dog -> meaning is agreed on) Grammar set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined to create meaning. Syntax rules that govern the order of words.