PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hopi Language, Dani People, Linguistic Relativity
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Communicating with others (1) evaluate the linguistic relativity hypothesis. (2) describe the structure of language and its basic units. (3) explain the role of shared knowledge in language comprehension. (4) describe the major milestones of language development. (5) evaluate whether there is such a thing as non human language". Different ways for thinking about a particular topic. If language and though were unrelated then speakers of language. Language bias: that if you speak language a you may be able to think in way a and b but you"re more likely to think this way. It is not that you van"t think this way just that you"re more bias towards a. Against: if language determines thinking, then if you don"t have a language then you shouldn"t babble to think about anything, we know this is no true. Children can"t talk till the age of 1 . Children are even able to solve problems even if they can"t talk.