PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Linguistic Relativity, Confirmation Bias, Functional Fixedness
1 Jun 2016
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19th c, focus on the mind but used introspection (not effective/ reliable) Behaviourism changed, focus on overt responses (denial of study of cognitive) Empirical study of cognition began in 1956. How people would have responded to human seeming technology. Cognition: how info is processed and manipulated in remembering, thinking, language, knowing. System of symbols plus rules: can create infinite meaning. Infinitive generative: with given language, can express infinite number of thought and ideas. Structured: rules of word order, parts of speech. Speech units: 100 possible, 40 in english (sounds) Units of meaning: 50,000 in english (root words, prefixes, suffixes) Syntax: rules for how words combined form sentences. Pragmatics: gestures, facial expressions, intonation, etc. (everything else) Mental retardation not always concurrent with poor language skills. Williams sysndrome (lower than normal cognitive but normal language) Deaf children: lack written or language skills but same cognitive skills. Whorf in 1956: linguistic relativity hypothesis (whorf"s hypothesis):
