PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Noam Chomsky, Metalinguistic Awareness, Emergentism

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

Cognition refers to the mental processes involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge (memory, verbal reasoning ability, perceptual reasoning ability, and processing speed): cognitive psychology as a field investigates: Language consists of symbols that convey meaning, plus rules for combining those symbols, that can be used to generate an infinite variety of messages. Language and its accompanying gestures allow us to convey information, express ourselves, and bond with others. Symbolic as people use spoken sounds and written words to represent objects, actions, events, and ideas. Semantic or meaningful. o o: generative as there is a limited number of symbols that can be combined in an infinite variety of o ways to generate an endless array of messages. Structured as rules govern the arrangement of words into phrases and sentences, some arrangements are acceptable and some are not. Phonemes are the smallest speech units in a language that can be distinguished perceptually. o o o.