PSYC 102 Chapter Notes -Inductive Reasoning, Aphasia, Procedural Knowledge
10 Dec 2012
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Mental representations ideas, concepts, images, principles: human create them and manipulate them in the form of language, thinking, reasoning, problem solving. Language consist of system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics scientific study of the psychological aspect of language, eg how people understand, produce, acquire. Five essential properties to any language: symbols, structure, meaning, generativity, displacement: symbol: language use symbols to represent things, and symbols are arbitrary (subjective), eg dog, perro, chien, hund all means dog. Eg i nailed the test does not mean hammer and nail. English speaker and beginner speaker might perceive the sentence differently: generativity. Symbols can combine to generate an infinite number of messages that have novel meaning (26 letters into half a million words into limitless number of sentences: displacement.
