PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Speech Production, Mental Representation, Linguistic Determinism
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Idea that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought. The structure of a language affects its speakers" world view or cognition. Language impairment affecting the production and comprehension of speech. Anything that stands in for or corresponds to something else. Hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality. Allow us to answer questions about objects not in our presence & solve problems. Categorization: process of grouping things based on shared info. Concept: mental representation that groups objects, events or common themes. Left temporal lobe: knowledge representation, mental images, knowledge catagorization, organization of concepts. Classical categorization features prototype (best example) in catagory: thinking styles. Objects are categorized according to a certain set of rules or specific set of. Prototype model: objects are categorized according to how closely they resemble the. Exemplar model: all members of catagory that we have encountered form concept. Reasoning: using info to determine if a conclusion is valid or reasonable.
