PSY 308- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 60 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 308
• Professor: Paolo Ammirante

Document Summary

Written language, proper grammar, or thought itself. Children have no instinctive tendency to write, but have to learn it. Children are hard wired with universal grammar. If the(cid:455) did(cid:374)(cid:859)t lea(cid:396)(cid:374) it the(cid:455) (cid:373)ust ha(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) (cid:271)o(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:449)ith it. Universal grammar is not necessarily specific to language. Types of thinking go on without language -visual imagery: what language is. Dialects are just as sophisticated as languages: words. Does thinking depend on language: strong version of the sapir-whorf hypothesis called linguistic determinism says that it does. Inuit have 50 different words for snow. First of all, this is a myth. Even if it was true, does this mean that inuit think differently about snow than others: not many people agree with linguistic determinism. Some arguments against linguistic determinism: babies and animals capable of thought without language, a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g adults, so(cid:373)e t(cid:455)pes of thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g do(cid:374)(cid:859)t see(cid:373) to (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds.