PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Eleanor Rosch, Pragmatics, Computer Architecture
8 Dec 2015
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Cognitive revolution: 19th century focus on mind. Introspection, but too unreliable: behaviourism focus on overt responses. Incomplete picture of human functioning: empirical study of cognition 1956. George miller memory: when psychology first emerged as an independent science, the focus was on the mind. Computer revolution in psychology: computers began to be widely used, computer architecture analogy to human thought formulated. Language: thoughts into words: system of symbols + combination rules that can generate, properties: infinite variety of meanings. Speech units, 100 possible, english about 40. Unit of meaning; 50,000 in english, root words, prefixes: morphology language rules for word formation. Language a form of communication, whether spoken, written, or signed, that is based on a system of symbols. Syntax a language"s rules for the way words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences. Semantics the meaning of words and sentences in a particular language. Morphology: sound system, rules for word formation.
