PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cardinality, Red Color, Gombey
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Best evidence that we have concepts is that we have language to express our thoughts. Language differs from one to the next; it is an arbitrary stream of sound/gesture that we interpret to mean something. Meaning is about retrieving thoughts from another person"s head. How are they connected to the mental representations that they are about: we can find out how thoughts are constructed by observing their development in children. Meaning has different meanings: meaning is usually associated with meaningfulness ; importance or value; purpose or goal, this is not really what linguists and psychologists have in mind. Our definition of meaning is not necessarily about feelings we get. To learn words, we have to get info in our head about a stimulus and encode/express it in a way that others can interpret. Infants begin associating words with meanings by 6 months of age, and by 10 months,
