Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Window Blind, Chief Operating Officer, Hard Wired

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

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Example: sentence: the stranger left, phrases: the strangers, word: the, strangers, morpheme: strange, er, s; so "strangers" have 3 morphemes, meaningful units of speech, phoneme - streynj, r, z, smallest units of speech. In english, there are only 45 phonemes; but for hawaiian, there are 13. Making sense of these words, understanding; is called syntax: arranging the elements in "meaningful" ways, proper structure: importance of grammar, ex. 1: colourless green ideas sleep furiously: these sentence does not make sense but it is syntactically correct, ex. Humor = syntax: comes with formal thinking, ex. Order, order in court: i"ll have a ham and cheese on rye: ability to "appreciate" ambiguous meaning and logical inconsistency, phonological ambiguity (sounds, confusion of sounds (knock-knock jokes) Lexical ambiguity (word meaning: confusion or double meaning of words, ex. "i work as a baker because i knead the dough: syntactic ambiguity (structure, confusion in structure, semantic ambiguity (overall meaning, meaning, ex.