PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Intelligence Quotient, Memory Span, Personality Test

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Language: consists of symbols that convey meaning and rules for combining the symbols. Has 3 morphemes: un, friend, ly, ex dogs. 2 morphemes: dog, s, ex walked. 2 morphemes: walk - verb, ed - happened in the past. Friday, january 20, 2017: grammar: rules that allow us to communicate, semantics: rules that allow us to derive meaning from words, syntax: how to put words to make sense. Language development: receptive language (by 4 months) This is where babies are starting to be able recognize speech sounds and read lips. They are able to understand what is being said to them. Starting to know what to expect when lips move. Prefer when the movements of the lips matches the sounds coming out. By 7 months they can start to segment the sound into individual words: productive language (around 7 months) Tend to be vowels and constant sounds. Tend to be nouns: 2 word stage (telegraphic speech)