Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

Key TERMS Conceptual peg hypothesis, 272 Depictive representation, 275 Epiphenomenon, 274 Imageless thought debate, 271 Imagery ...

292 292 Language Having a conversation involves perceiving and understanding words, following rules governing how words can be c ...

293 29293 PARAMOUNT PICTURES/THE KOBAL COLLECTION/The Picture Desk WHAT IS A PROBLEM? The Creativity of Human Language The Unive ...

294 • CHAPTER 11 Language How do we understand individual words, and how are words combined to create sentences? (297) How can w ...

What Is Language? • 295 THE CREATIVITY OF HUMAN LANGUAGE Human language goes far beyond a series of fi xed signals that transmit ...

296 • CHAPTER 11 Language that are involved in understanding and producing language. When we described this work in Chapter 2, w ...

Perceiving Words, Phonemes, and Letters • 297 page 322, for suggested readings about language acquisition.) We begin by consider ...

298 • CHAPTER 11 Language We will consider how context affects meaning in a moment, but fi rst let’s focus on perception—our abi ...

Perceiving Words, Phonemes, and Letters • 299 One of the fascinating aspects of this effect is that if we were to analyze the so ...

300 • CHAPTER 11 Language baby. There is evidence that young children learn these rules about what sounds go together in words a ...

Understanding Words • 301 THE WORD FREQUENCY EFFECT Some words occur more frequently in a particular language than others. For e ...

302 • CHAPTER 11 Language annoyed, among other things. When ambiguous words appear in a sentence, we usually use the context of ...

Understanding Words • 303 ●FIGURE 11.5 (a) The procedure for Swinney’s (1979) experiment. See text for details. (b) The results ...

304 • CHAPTER 11 Language What is the word superiority effect? How does the frequency of words (word frequency effect) aid in a ...

Understanding Sentences • 305 How did you interpret this sentence as you read it? Initially, after cast iron sinks, the sentence ...

306 • CHAPTER 11 Language Notice what is happening in these sentences. The syntax-based principle of late closure leads the read ...

Understanding Sentences • 307 ●FIGURE 11.6 Two possible interpretations of “The spy saw the man with the binoculars.” (a) (b) pa ...

308 • CHAPTER 11 Language upon hearing “in the box,” the person quickly makes a correction and looks back at the apple (eye move ...

Understanding Text and Stories • 309 Understanding Text and Stories Just as sentences are more than the sum of the meanings of i ...

310 • CHAPTER 11 Language not specifi cally indicated in the picture, a creative process involving prior knowledge and inference ...