Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Belief Bias, Procedural Knowledge, Deductive Reasoning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas

Document Summary

Language a system of symbols &rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Psycholinguistics the scientific study of the psychological aspects of language. Allowing people to transmit knowledge to one another. Scientists believe that humans have evolves an innate capacity for acquiring language. Human languages across the globe share the same underlying features. Grammar the set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined to create meaningful units of communication. Generativity the symbols of language can be combined to generate an infinite number of messages that have novel meaning. Displacement the fact that language allows us to communicate about events &objects that are no physically present. Surface structure the symbols that are used, their order, and how they are combined. Deep structure the underlying meaning of the combined symbols. Phoneme the smallest unit of speech sound in a language that can signal a difference in meaning.