Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-13: Miscarriage, Social Environment, Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Mental representations include images, ideas, concepts and principles. Language consists of a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics is the scientific study of the psychological aspects of language, such as how people understand, produce and acquire language. Human thought and behaviour depend on more than the physical structure of the brain. Some evolutionary theorists believe that the use of language evolved as people gathered to form larger social units. Extremely powerful learning mechanism oral and written form. Language uses sounds, written characters, or some other system of symbols to represent. Language also has a rule governed structure. Grammar is the set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined to create meaningful units of communication. Zpflrovc is not an english word because 5 consonants cannot be put in an unbroken sequence. Syntax is the rules that govern the order of words.