Psychology 2134A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Implicit Learning, L-Vocalization, Arbitrariness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Marc Joanisse

Document Summary

The concept of empiricism mentioned in the lecture is defined as: the theory that children are able to learn language directly without recourse to innate abilities. What is a mental grammar": an individual"s implicit knowledge of the rules or principles of their language. The displacement principle of language is : the ability to use language to talk about things happening in the past, or future, or outside the current context, or that are even untrue. A vocalization that warns other members of the group about an approaching threat is called . A vocalization, a word or gesture that refers to the entire situation and not to the specific object and events in that situation is called : holophrase. The psychological process that groups items into larger meaningful units in order to increase working memory capacity is known as : chunking. The process of taking meaningless units and combing them into meaningful units is called : duality of patterning.