PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Kanzi, Illusory Correlation, Pliers
16 May 2012
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Thinking or cognition; the processes that underlie the mental manipulation of knowledge, images and ideas, often in an attempt to reach a goal, such as solving a problem. Thinking increases your ability to survive because you can act on your knowledge in precise, systematic and purposeful ways. Language importantly influences the way we think about and view our world. Linguistic relativity hypothesis proposes that language determines thought. Words and structures of a culture"s language determine the perceptions and thoughts of members of that culture. Example - hopi tribe language has no past tense verbs, therefore they may have difficulty thinking about the past. Cultural evidence eleanor rosch dani tribe. Contains only two basic colour terms: mola for bright warm hues, and mili for darker colder hues. Rosch interpreted her results as evidence that english speakers and speakers of dani perceive colour in very similar ways.
