PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nonverbal Communication, Vocal Tract, Implicit Memory
30 Dec 2017
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Language: largely arbitrary system of communication that combines symbols in rule based ways to create meaning. Language, thinking and reasoning: symbolic system of communication that has rules, use symbols; sound or markings on paper, we understand how symbols go together, what they mean. Purpose to transmit information to express thoughts, emotions: an automatic element after learning a language, when we communicate, language is coming to us really easy, without struggle, our natural language: implicit memory it just flows out of us. Dialect: variations on a language used by a group of people who share geography, and/or ethnic background, same language, slightly different way to say things. Onomatopoeia: words that sound like what they represent, (cid:862)(cid:271)aa, (cid:373)oo(cid:863) How children learn language: babies listen in the womb, babies can be soothed when you read stories to them in the womb, babies can recognize the story: sounds familiar, we take language in even before we get out.
