PSYC 100 Cognitive Psychology
Communication is conveying a thought. Language is the method of communicating this
information. - answers✔✔Language vs communication
1. Semanticity
2. Generativity
3. Displacement - answers✔✔Three key properties of human language
Extent to which a language can use symbols to transmit messages - answers✔✔Semanticity
Ability to combine words or symbols to make new words - answers✔✔Generativity
Ability to use language to explain something that is not tied to immediate context -
answers✔✔Displacement
Basic sounds that distinguish words - answers✔✔Phenomes
Smallest unit of meaning in language - answers✔✔Morphemes
Meaningful on their own - answers✔✔Free morphemes
Meaningful when combined w other morphemes - answers✔✔Bound morphemes
Grammatical rules for combining words to form structures - answers✔✔Syntax
, Relationship between words and meanings - answers✔✔Semantics
Social rules of language - answers✔✔Pragmatics
- sounds (phonemes) are recognized
- words are identified for meaning
- syntax is analyzed
- interpreted in its context - answers✔✔How is speech interpreted and understood?
Tendency of person to disregard physical differences between stimuli and perceive them as the
same - answers✔✔Categorical perception
Our eyes make rapid jumps (saccades) as we read and perceive - answers✔✔Scanning
Sounding out words - answers✔✔Phonetic reading
Recognize words more quickly if they have meaning related to the word before -
answers✔✔Semantic priming
0-2 months - crying
1-2 months - cooing
6-7 months - babbling
1 year - first words
18-20 months - 2 word stage
5-6 years - sentences - answers✔✔Sequence of Language Milestons
Communication is conveying a thought. Language is the method of communicating this
information. - answers✔✔Language vs communication
1. Semanticity
2. Generativity
3. Displacement - answers✔✔Three key properties of human language
Extent to which a language can use symbols to transmit messages - answers✔✔Semanticity
Ability to combine words or symbols to make new words - answers✔✔Generativity
Ability to use language to explain something that is not tied to immediate context -
answers✔✔Displacement
Basic sounds that distinguish words - answers✔✔Phenomes
Smallest unit of meaning in language - answers✔✔Morphemes
Meaningful on their own - answers✔✔Free morphemes
Meaningful when combined w other morphemes - answers✔✔Bound morphemes
Grammatical rules for combining words to form structures - answers✔✔Syntax
, Relationship between words and meanings - answers✔✔Semantics
Social rules of language - answers✔✔Pragmatics
- sounds (phonemes) are recognized
- words are identified for meaning
- syntax is analyzed
- interpreted in its context - answers✔✔How is speech interpreted and understood?
Tendency of person to disregard physical differences between stimuli and perceive them as the
same - answers✔✔Categorical perception
Our eyes make rapid jumps (saccades) as we read and perceive - answers✔✔Scanning
Sounding out words - answers✔✔Phonetic reading
Recognize words more quickly if they have meaning related to the word before -
answers✔✔Semantic priming
0-2 months - crying
1-2 months - cooing
6-7 months - babbling
1 year - first words
18-20 months - 2 word stage
5-6 years - sentences - answers✔✔Sequence of Language Milestons
