PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Problem Solving, Headache, Deep Structure And Surface Structure
9 Mar 2016
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The weak" version of the linguisic relaivity hypothesis: The language that you speak inluences how you think. The strong" version of the linguisic relaivity hypothesis . The language that you speak determines how you think. The hopi language has no past tense form of verbs. A version of strong lr is described in the novel 1984 . In a totalitarian regime, language is changed to make talking about revoluion impossible. The idea is, if the populaion cannot talk about revoluion, they cannot think about revoluion. English ( i walk to school vs. i walk-ed to school ) Hopi ( i walk to school vs. i walk to school yesterday / a while ago / a long ime ago ) The dani people have just two words for describing colours mola for bright, warm tones and mili for darker, colder hues. The hanunoo people have 92 diferent names for rice.
