PSYC 3290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Noam Chomsky, Language Acquisition Device

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3290
• Professor: Raluca Barac

Document Summary

If info is not in lecture, then its not in exam. Language is automatic --> this is why when we see advertisements everywhere we read them subconsciously. Psycho + linguistics psychology -> study of individuals" mental processes and behaviours linguistics -> study of the origin, structure and use of language. - studies of language biological hardware: articulatory system, brain awareness of social setting language to convey meanings words and putting them in the right order. -> types of knowledge (tacit versus explicit knowledge) -> areas of knowledge (semantics, syntax, phonology, pragmatics: what cognitive processes are involved in the ordinary use of language? graph of cognitive processes and knowledge. -> knowledge starts at 0 and continuously increases and plateaus at late age. -> cognitive processes start at 0, shoot up exponentially and being to decrease around mid life. Tacit something we know how to perform but we cannot explain -->ex. speaking. -> we learn language at a very young age (implicit)