PSYCO105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Persian Language, Protective Factor, Grammatical Gender
31 Jul 2018
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Language one habitually uses affects how one conceptualizes the world. Developmentally: young children might not show these effects while older children might. Languages often use metaphors to refer to extreme ends of pitch. Design - participants saw image and heard note, made associations (with high/low, thin/thick, One possibility is that there are non linguistic preferences (now word for low when regarding high pitch) Does grammatical gender (masculine/feminine words) affect how one classifies objects. Bilingual (french-english) children divided gender not according to french genders (have a. Older children were only slightly over chance in identifying objects correctly. Different languages shows the smallest effects on thought. Why english people have intuitions about genders for objects. Those who do not use thin/thick pitch were able to mostly use the correct terms. Self-regulation - ability to control one"s thoughts, actions, behaviors and emotions , with the greatest improvement occurring at the age of 3.
