PSYC 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Belief Perseverance, Soltyrei, Representativeness Heuristic
16 Sep 2017
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Cognition refers to the metal processes involved in acquiring knowledge. Language consists of symbols that convey meaning plus rules for combining those symbols that can be used to generate an infinite variety of messages. Symbolic (people use spoken sounds and written word to represent objects) Structured (rules govern arrangement of words into phrases and sentences; some work and others do(cid:374)(cid:859)t) Smallest part of speech unites in a language that can be distinguished perceptually. Sound of a word: about 40 in english language, morphemes and semantics, morphemes are the smallest units of meaning in a language, about 40, 000 in english language (prefixes and suffixes) Semantics is the area of language concerned w/ understanding the meaning of words and word combos: a words meaning can consists of both its denotation (dictionary definition) and connotation (emotional overtones and secondary implications) System of rules that specify how words can be arranged into sentences (cid:858)
