PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Bounded Rationality, Decision-Making, Problem Solving
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Language and thought: cognition: refers to the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. What is language: language: consist of symbols that convey meaning, plus rules for combining those symbols, that can be used to generate an infinite variety of messages. Approximately 50000 english morphemes including root words, prefixes and suffixes. Examples: fire, guard, friend; all have one morpheme. Example: unfriendly 3 morphemes (un: prefix, friend: root, ly: suffix: semantics: area of language concerned with understanding the meaning of words and word combinations. Word"s meaning consists of denotation (dictionary definition) as well as connotation (emotional overtones and secondary implications) Ps102 chapter 8 notes: syntax: system that specify how words can be arranged into sentences, rule: a sentence must have a subject and a verb, children"s acquisition of syntax seems to progress at a rapid rate. Reflexive communication: vocalizes randomly, coos, laughs, engages in vocal play, discriminates language from non-language sounds.
