PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kanzi, Rocking Chair, Family Resemblance

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Stephen Want

Document Summary

Psy102: introduction to psychology (8) language and thought. * the weak" version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis: * the language that you speak influences how you think. * the strong" version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis . * the language that you speak determines how you think. The weak" lr hypothesis can influence their thinking: * we have already seen several instances where the language a person speaks. * that is, if your language has no word for something, do you have problems thinking about it? idea is, if the population cannot talk about revolution, they cannot think about revolution. A version of strong lr is described in the novel 1984 . In a totalitarian regime, language is changed to make talking about revolution impossible. * the hopi language has no past tense form of verbs. * english ( i walk to school vs. i walk-ed to school )