PSYC 500

Psychology of Language

Examination of cognitive, motor, and physiological processes involved in production and comprehension of spoken and written language from a psychological perspective. Emphasis on issues, methods, and explanatory models in psychology relevant to the transmission of information via reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Topics include reader/text and listener/speaker characteristics, mental representations, memory, conversational interchanges, and pragmatics

Units: 3.0