Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: B. F. Skinner, Procedural Knowledge, Arbitrariness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Language: combination of symbols to generate possible messages/meanings. Psycholinguistics: scientific study of the psychological aspects of language. How people understand, produce, and acquire language. 3 types of psycholinguists: the function of language, models of language processing, physiological localization of functions in the brain. 2 major views of human mental processes: modularity, connectionism. Questions posed at each level of analysis of an information-processing system influenced by modularity vs. connectionism. Each level influences the next: computational. Based in linguistics and influenced by chomsky. Key problem: determine rules between input form and meaning. Having the same worded sentence but the sentences having different meanings: representational. Key problem: finding a way to represent information. Measuring how long it takes to understand the meaning of a sentence. Symbols, sounds, or characters used to represent something: ex. Words have the same meaning to people within a certain language: structure.