PSY315H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Language Of Thought Hypothesis, Autobiographical Memory, Linguistic Determinism
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Memory of one"s own experiences. false belief (understanding) The understanding that other people can hold beliefs that contradict reality and that they will act on those beliefs. False-belief understanding is an important component of theory of mind understandings. gender systems. Linguistic systems in which nouns belong to one of two or more categories that take different forms of articles and grammatical morphemes. language socialization. The process by which children learn the socially appropriate use of language in their communities and the process by which language socializes children to adopt the attitudes and behaviors of their communities. linguistic determinism. The hypothesis that language determines thought, with the corollary that speakers of different languages may, as result, think differently. Also known as the whorfian hypothesis. mental state language. Language that refers to mental states such as words like think, want, know. mentalese.
