Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Psycholinguistics, Phoneme

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

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Chapter 9 language & thinking: mental representations: images, ideas, concepts, principles, . 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. Properties of language: symbols, symbols, sounds, or characters used to represent something, ex. Knowing when to take someone literally or figuratively: generativity, the symbols of language can be combined infinitely to create meanings, ex. Using the alphabet to create infinite sentences even if never heard before: displacement, allows us to discuss events/objects that are not physically present, ex. Sh, th, d, l: have no meaning unless combined with other elements, ex. D vs. l create different meanings when combined with og dog vs. log: morphemes: smallest units of meaning in a language (ex. Understanding and producing language: bottom-up processing: combines individual parts of a stimulus to create one big perception, top-down processing: information is interpreted in light of existing knowledge (ex.