PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Language Disorder, Cognitive Reserve, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Language and thought: the sapir-whorf hypothesis linguistic determinism vs. linguistic relativism (influence) Aphasia: language impairment affecting the production and/or comprehension of speech. Mental images: we form mental images of many objects they allow us to answer questions about objects that are not in our presences, also allows us to solve problems, we can manipulate these mental images. Knowledge categorization: we use symbolic representations (words) to represent much of our knowledge, categorization: process of grouping things based on shared information, concept: mental representation that groups object, events, or relations arounds common themes. Thinking styles: categorization strategies taxonomic (western) thematic (eastern) thinking styles, analytic thinking (western, holistic thinking (eastern) In perception and categorization: holistic (family resemblance) vs. analytic (rule based, nisbett and miyamoto (2005, group 2: rule (share some stem, group 1: share more features overall, but no single common feature. When i watch tv, i channel surf, often scanning through the options even while attempting to watch one program .