Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Speech Segmentation, Phoneme

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

Document Summary

Humans dominate because we are able to communicate. Consists of a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics studies psychological aspect of language; how people understand, produce, and acquire language. Human thought and behaviour depend on more than the physical structure of the brain. It also depends on human cognitive and linguistic skills. Socially oriented lifestyles were selected for by natural selection / evolution. Language was used to adapt to the environmental demands of organizing large social units. Language also plays a role in learning. Language is symbolic and structured language uses sounds, written characters, or other system of symbols (like hand signs) to represent objects, events, ideas, feelings, and actions. The word dog doesn"t actually look like a dog; it doesn"t sound like a dog when spoken, etc.