AUPSY 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Availability Heuristic, Linguistic Relativity, Representativeness Heuristic

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY 263
• Professor: Kathie Bailey

Document Summary

Wolf children children who were found being raised by wolves. They missed out on the very important period where language is learned. The hypothesis that people who speak different languages think differently. A language"s colour categories may affect how its speakers perceive and remember colour. A richer language for describing colour means that its speakers may have more colour capability. Go east for 20 miles, then go east for 16 miles . Turn left on this street, and follow it until you turn right on that street . Language determines what you can think about. Categories help us organize information so we can think about it more easily. Language capabilities may be higher because you are flipping between two or more ways of thinking and speaking. We are constantly make decisions and weighing our options. Our assessment of how often an event has occurred in the past or how common an object is in the world.