PSY 12000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psychoanalytic Theory, Homeostasis, Facial Feedback Hypothesis
24 Aug 2016
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Mental manipulation of knowledge and ideas covers a broad range of activities: language and communication, classifying and categorizing, solving problems, making decisions and choices efficient, but prone to shortcut-based errors. Language (system of communication) defining characteristic: grammar: set of rules governing how symbols can be combined to convey meaning, language development, language in nonhuman species, and language as an. Wug test: add -s to make word plural & add -ed to make: language learning word past-tense language is learned through direct instruction, conscious memorization, rules and vocabulary. Early attempt: chimps cannot be raised to speak. Taught sign language capable of understanding more than they can produce. Evidence for new combination, but low complexity: dolphins have individual names, grammar among birds. Language as adaptation: evolved differently through natural selection, complex brains and social systems= a need to express complex ideas/thoughts, indicators of adaptation: Specific regions of the brain process language. Human vocal and ear anatomy are ideal for speech.
