Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Confirmation Bias, Cd Player, Daniel Tammet

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Humans physically puny and relatively defenceless compared to other species. But humans dominate because we can communicate more ef ciently and think. We do this by creating mental representations of the world and manipulate them in the form of language thinking, reasoning and problem solving. Mental representations include images, ideas, concepts, and principles. The process of education is all about transferring ideas and skills from one mind to another. Most common, universal feature of human society. Pervades every facet of our lives, public and private. Every culture, no matter how isolated or primitive has language. Every person, except under extreme deprivation/accidents, develops skills in use of language. Victor learned to read an d write some words but never learned to speak. Genie speaking ability stalled at around 2-3 year old age. Letters, written and spoken symbols that stand for the referent of the word. Shared by all speakers of a language culture.