PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Schizophrenia, Aaron T. Beck, Castration Anxiety

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Amy Poremba

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Each culture has a different language each culture has a different reality a. ii. Example: eskimos have a large number of words for snow. Experience differs by culture to create a different a. ii. 2. reality. Many languages don"t have elaborate names for color a. ii. 2. b. a. ii. 2. c. Perception of color should be different for each a. ii. 3. culture. Changing of words without negative connotation might change perceptions for the group a. ii. 3. c. Example: mental retardation: thought determines language b. i. Eskimos don"t have more words for snow than we do b. iv. 1. a. b. iv. 1. b. Their words correspond to our descriptions of snow b. iv. 2. Color perception is similar across culture b. iv. 3. b. iv. 2. a. Roche (1995): stone age individuals were able to match colors that were similar; culture asked to learn colors and as they learned, less errors were made. Words can have more than one meaning in a sentence (puns, jokes, etc. ) b. iv. 3. b. Language is not telling you what you think. Problem solving: features of problem solving a. i.