PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Linguistic Determinism, Critical Period, Behaviorism
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Language and thought: sapir-whorf hypothesis, linguistic determinism, language determines your thought, language is a causal connection to the thought you have. Languages that use arbitrary gender classification: and light blue shades: certain languages have gender classifications (german, spanish, french, does this affect the way people think about different objects. Language and the brain: for a vast majority of people the left hemisphere is important for language, broca (frontal lobe) Important for production of speech: planning speech, speech production, wernicke (temporal lobe) Important for language comprehension: picks up on auditory information and makes sense of it. If it is damaged people have a difficult time comprehending speech (spoken words, written words) Mental images: work in the same way as real images, the farther an image was rotated from its original position the longer it takes participants to answer if the image was a mirror image or not.
