PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Red Chip, Scientific Method, Numerical Cognition
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Defining the terms correctly, how the question is framed. Action expressed, time and tense, causality is expressed etc. Categorization, concepts and its relations, attention, decision making, mathematical cognition etc. Four perspectives to consider: similarity between language and thought is an abstract level, thought require language, thought influenced by language, differences among languages, does knowing a specific language constrain thought? b. 1a the idea of having an internal monologue. We do sometimes talk to ourselves lists, working through a problem, verbalising out loud. But - behaviors we see in pre linguistic infants are smart, they know of causality, physics, infants have intelligent behaviour and improves along the course of development, they do smart things, dissociation between language and thinking. But deaf children with hearing parents, not yet exposed to sign language yet, they are as smart as any other child. We know that there is development and changes in linguistic ability, track changes in cognitive ability and linguistic ability.
