An animal produces the same fixed alarm call whenever danger is present, but it cannot combine its calls to describe a new or imaginary event.
Explain how Aitchison's (1983) criteria of language show that this alarm call is not language.
48 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Psychology 10.1 Language, thought and communication, covering 10.1.1 Relationship between language and thought, 10.1.2 How thought and language affect views of the world, 10.1.3 Human vs animal communication, 10.1.4 Non-verbal communication examples, and 10.1.5 Explanations of non-verbal communication. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.