Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Vocal Tract, Ape, Homo Sapiens

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

Investigation of language functions, models, and brain relationships: 3 broad areas, function of language, models of language processing, physiological localization of functions in the brain. What is language: basic hypothesis, although every organism can relay information within species, only humans use language. Language features: two major areas to investigate to evaluate our original hypothesis, language and human evolution, comparative evaluation of human and non-human communication, although every organism can relay information within species, only humans use language. Language & human evolution: human technological progress approx. Monkey"s calls do not as they are only uttered in the presence of predators. parts. Monkey calls also fail as there is no evidence that the calls can be broken into constituent parts which allow for new utterances: this latter fact also rules out productivity for the vervets. Bees however, show limited: although animal and human communication systems show some overlap in the productivity as they can signal locations never before signaled.