PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Cognitive Revolution, Noam Chomsky, Psych
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Cognition: refers to the mental process involved in acquiring knowledge, involves thinking. Behaviourism killed it but the cognitive revolution happened in 1950. Language: consists of symbols that convey meaning, plus rules for combining those symbols can be sued to generate an in nite variety of messages. Language is generative: limited symbols can be combined in an in nite number of ways. Language is structured: rules government how we can use words in sentences. Phonemes : smallest speech units that can be measured perceptually. Humans only recognize about 100 basic sounds. different languages use 20-80 phonemes, none use all of them. 50,000 english morphemes re, guard, friend consist of one morpheme. pre x, suf x, and root words. Semantics: language concerned with understanding the meaning of words and word combos learning of the in nite variety of objects. can go with its denotation-dictionary de nition and its connotation who has emotional overlays.
