PSYC 3290 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cognitive Reserve, White Matter, Episodic Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3290
• Professor: Raluca Barac

Document Summary

Linguistic relativity: cognitive processes are different as a function of different languages being spoken. Logic summary: (1) different languages utilize different semantic/grammatical representations, which are informationally not equivalent (2) semantic/grammatical representations determine aspects of conceptual representations. Therefore (3) users of different languages utilize different conceptual representations. Strong version: linguistic categories create cognitive categories, language constraints perception of reality. There is no evidence that supports the strong version. Weak version: language directs attention to certain aspects of reality more than others more ease in performing certain cognitive operations. Evidence against: rosch heider (1972, dani of new guinea (2): dark and light, color recognition task: english and dani speakers, basic colors were remembered better than non-basic colors by both groups. Evidence for colour universals (i. e. , this study does not support the linguistic relativity hypothesis) Pormpuraaw people in australia, speakers of kuuk thaayorre. Pormpuraawans" representations of time differ strikingly from all others: pormpuraawans instead arrange time according to cardinal directions: east to west.