PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Revolution, Paradigm Shift, Linguistic Relativity

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: C Douglas McCann, Hilda Ho, Jala Rizeq, Ronda Lo, Iris Yusupov, Rotem Petranker

Document Summary

Cognition ----> language i. the language that you"ve learned effects the way you think about the world. Language ----> cognition: sapir-whorf linguistic-relativity hypothesis , different cultures ---> different languages ---> different cognition, there is no reality but a constructive reality, so language affects our reality. Inuit has more words for snow ---> think differently about snow: hopi has no past tense verbs ----> difficulty thinking about past. Sometime you don"t need to listen to the words, but just hear communication. (can calm you down?) We say hafta not havta: hafta is a sloppy form of (2) have to . Thus, (3) i hafta sleep = (4) i have to sleep) Same pronunciation as (4) except change i to h . Conclusion: the use of hafta is rule-governed and we must be careful about when to be careless. Never substitute hafta here, even though sound the same.