Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Metamemory, Deductive Reasoning, Second Language

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

Mental representation- includes images, ideas, concepts, and principles. Manipulating them in the forms of language, thinking, reasoning and problem solving. Language- consists of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Called the jewel in the crown of cognition . Psycholinguistics- study of the psychological aspects of language, such as how people understand, produces, and acquires language. Evolutionary theorists believed that the use of language evolved as people gathered to form larger social units. As the social environment became more complex, new survival problems emerged: The need to create divisions of labour and cooperative social systems. To develop social customs and communicate thoughts, and to pass on knowledge and wisdom. The development of language made it easier for humans to adapt to these environmental demands. **properties of language listed in lecture 9 notes**