PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: 18 Months, Exact Sequence, Bounded Rationality

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

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Chapter 8: language and thought: cognition: the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. It involves thinking: language: consists of symbols that convey meaning, plus rules for combining those symbols, that can be used to generate an infinite variety of messages. Language is structured although people can generate an infinite variety of sentences, these sentences must be structured. Language is symbolic people use spoken sounds and written words to represent objects, actions, events, and ideas. Language is semantic/meaningful the symbols used in a language are arbitrary, where no built-in relationship exists between the look or sound of words and the objects they stand for. Even though another word could"ve been used to represent the object, those words all share a related meaning towards the object. Language is generative a limited number of symbols can be combined in an infinite variety of ways to generate an endless array of novel messages. 7.