Psychology 2134A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: 18 Months, Supramarginal Gyrus, Spreading Activation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

Tip of the tongue: feeling of knowing something without being able to recall it. Word: a minimal unit of meaningful speech that can stand alone. Concept: a mental representation of some sort of statistical regularity in our experience. Phonological form of a word: the way it sounds when produced in isolation or within an utterance. The duality of words: phonological form (way it sounds, semantic representation (the concept) Semantic representation of a word: the concept associated with the word. Also called open-class words because they continue to be learned over time as vocabulary changes. Limited in number, and remain stable over centuries. Determiners: used to help link nouns with the people or things they refer to (a [something], the. Lemma: the basic form of a word. (ex. Lexeme: the set of all forms a word can take. (category for [run] that includes run, runs, ran, and running). Coda: final consonant portion of a syllable.