Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Frontal Lobe, Reinforcement, Language Acquisition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Mental representation: includes images, ideas, concepts, and principles. Language: consists of a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an 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. 4 properties of language: symbols, structure, meaning, generativity. Language is symbolic and structured: symbols are used to represent objects, symbols in language are arbitrary ( agreed-on meaning) Grammar: set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined to create meaningful units of communication. Syntax: the rules that govern the order of words. Generativity: the symbols of language can be combined to generate an infinite number of messages that have novel meaning. Displacement: the fact that language allows us to communicate about events and objects that are not physically present.