PSY-1200 Chapter 28: Module 28 notes

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY-1200
• Professor: Sandberg Elisabeth

Document Summary

Module 28: language and thought language: our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. Ex. a or i: grammar: in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others. In a given language, semantics meaning from sounds, and syntax grammatically sensible sentences is the set of rules for combining words into is the set of rules for deriving. The ability to learn a new language diminishes with age. The brain and language: aphasia: impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage either to. In processing language, as in other forms of information processing, the brain operates by dividing its mental functions speaking, perceiving, thinking, remembering into subfunctions. Do other species have language: animals show impressive comprehension and communication, chimpanzees learning language i. Ape vocabularies and sentences are simple and are gained with great difficulty: may be nothing more than operant conditioning iii.