Four-year-old Maya tells her dad about the pretend meal she is going to cook for her toys tomorrow. She makes up new sentences, which she has never heard anyone say, to describe it.
Explain how Maya's communication shows two of Aitchison's (1983) criteria of 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.