Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Universal Grammar

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

Document Summary

Cognitive representations of the world, including images, ideas, concepts, and principles. The foundation of thinking and problem solving. A system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an infinite number of possible messages and meanings. The scientific study of the psychological aspects of language, such as how people understand produce, and acquire language. Although the structure of the brain hasn"t evolved much in the past 50 000 years, clearly human cognitive and linguistic skills have --> human thought and behaviour depended on more than the physical structure of the brain. Over the course of evolution, humans began to adapt a social lifestyle that helped them survive and reproduce. This created new problems though: divisions of labour, social customs, communication, passing on knowledge. The development of language made it easier for humans to adapt to these new challenges. Every human culture no matter how isolated has developed some sort of language.