PSY 308 Lecture Notes - Linguistic Determinism, B. F. Skinner, Pragmatics
4 Dec 2013
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They do perceive our perception of the world and how you think. The language that you speak determines the way you think about things/ organization of things. Exinuit and the word snow they have many words for snow not actually true. Strong version (linguistic determinism) ---> this is wrong. Weak version ( linguistic relativism) -----> may be true. Dani language (papua new guinea) only 2 colour words ( dark vs light) No can still categorize objects by colours nd like english speakers respond fastest to focal primary colours. Time is an abstract one dimensional directional entity. Spatial metaphor is used across cultures and languages. Specifics of that metaphor vary between cultures, e. g. earlier later. Language and time continued experiments conducted in english with native speakers of english and native speakers of mandarin. Mandarin speakers took a longer reaction time when it came to horizontal prime. Bf skinner operant conditioning learnt through environment and punishment/ reward.
