PSYC 3506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Linguistic Determinism, Ikea, Lev Vygotsky

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3506
• Professor: Deepthi Kamawar

Document Summary

Cognitive artifacts that support and extend thinking continued. Do absolute spatial terms vs relative spatial terms affect cognition. In study, those who used relative spatial terms kept same arrangement regardless of how room was set. Ast changed arrangement to fit where nsew were. Technology (physical cognitive artifacts) can influence cognition. Those who grew up with technology as a part of their daily life. These vary across cultures and across members within a culture. In vygotsky"s view, language has a special status. Recall number names and cognition (language and thought) It involved in the regulation of behavior (private speech) Private speech: comments intended to regulate own behavior. Use of private speech varies by age and difficulty level of task (e. g. , Children are talking to themselves but because its out loud, it is part of their language (but shows their thought process) Thus, in this view, the language one learns forms the basis for thought.