Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Peekaboo, Hard Wired, Oneword

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

Document Summary

Ability to use a finite number of words and rules to produce infinite number of sentences. Convey information about other times and place. Write and say it in a particular way. Most anything in english can be said with a vocabulary of 850 words. Correlation word frequency and word length = -. 75 telephone conversations: 96% of talk made up of 737 words. Contains root word and anything that changes the meaning of the root word. Phoneme streynj , r , z tell us about the pronunciation of morphemes. Comes with formal thinking: order, order in the court: i"ll have a ham and cheese on rye, silence, silence in the court: i"ll have a ham and cheese on rye. Ability to appreciate ambiguous meaning and logical inconsistency. Confusion of double meaning of words: i work as a baker because i knead the dough . John: i saw a man eating shark at the aquarium.