PSYC 10a Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Functional Fixedness, Representativeness Heuristic, Confirmation Bias
31 Oct 2016
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Language: a system for communicating with other using signals that are combined according to rules of grammar and convey meaning. Grammar: a set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages. Phonemes: smallest units of sound that are recognizable as speech rather than as random noise. Phonological rules: indicate how phonemes can be combined to produce speech sounds. Morphological rules: indicate how morphemes can be combined to form words. Syntactical rules: indicate how words can be combined to form phrases and sentences. At birth, infants can distinguish among all of the contrasting sounds that occur in all human languages. Within the first 6 months of life, they lose this ability and can only distinguish among the contrasting sounds in the language they hear being spoken around them. Fast mapping: fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure.
