Psychology Chapter 8 2
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- Mental representation
- take a variety of forms, including images, ideas, concepts, and principles
- language
- consists of a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can generate an infinite number of possible messages or meanings
- displacement
- refers to the fact that past, future, and imaginary events and object that are not physically present can be symbollically represented and communicated through the medium of language.
- surface structure
- consists of the way symbols are combined within a given language
- syntax
- (rules of grammar)
- deep structure
- refers to the underlying meaning of the combined symbols.
- semantics
- the rules for connecting the symbols to what they represent
- phonemes
- the smallest units of sound that are recognized as separate in a given language
- morphemes
- the smallest units of meaning in a language
- language acquisition device (LAD)
- an innate biological mechanism that contains general grammatical rules (which *he terms "universal grammar") common to all languages. *Noal Chomsky
- aphasia
- a disruption in speech comprehension and production