PSYC 3030 : PSYC 3030 EXAM 4 Notes
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Communicate thoughts inner dialogue relieves nervous energy or emotion. Establish/recognize identity linguistic convergence: people tend to drift towards what other people sound like linguistic relativism: thinking shapes language; language shapes thinking. Winewar et al. (2007) language affects the way you think on basic level; not higher level russians (gdoboy: dark blue; siney: light blue) vs. americans. A, b, c blocks -> say whether colors are same or different. Americans: performance same for either category russians: performance faster for different than same category. 13 different features that every form of communication needs to fall into to count as a language. Uses vocal, auditory sound; broadcasts transmission & reception; pheromones: can be used for communication. Bees -> finding next location rhesus monkeys -> different calls for different situations. 6 characteristics of language language is present in all human culture. Same formal operating principles -> hockett"s design features, grammar, etc. language onset correlated with age (critical period)
