Psychology 112 notes Thought and language: Samuel Morton (1820’s – 1850’s) * Intelligence testing - measured cranial cavity * Believed head size was directly related to intelligence (the more the better) * Also believed he could rank races Paul Broca (1824-1880) * Weighed brains and ranked people * Thought that larger brains meant greater intelligence Sir Frances Galton (1822-1911) * Believed intelligence was heredity * Developed statistical techniques with
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myth‚ and other features of social life that persuade people of the correctness of their beliefs or that convince them to change what they believe. How does Language affect the meanings we assign to our experience? The Ideas of Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf demonstrate that the vocabulary of a language may direct perception to certain features of the environment‚ and the grammar of a language may encourage certain ways of looking at the world. The selection of metaphors also has an impact
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2005. Print. Mufwene‚ Salikoko. The Ecology of Language Evolution. New York: Cambridge UP‚ 2011. Print. ---. Language Evolution: Contact‚ Competition and Change. London: Continuum International Publishing Group‚ 2008. Print. Newman‚ Stanley. “Edward Sapir (1884-1939).” International Journal of American Linguistics 50.4 (1984): 355-7. Web. JSTOR. 20 March 2011. Nnoromele‚ Patrick C. “The Plight of a Hero in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.” College Literature 27.2 (2000): 146-56. JSTOR. Web. 25 February 2011
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like China and India that are written in the language with words that may don’t even exist in English. Understanding these would be of great importance in enriching and improving the way American students perceive the world. According to Sapir’s Whorf Hypothesis‚ language and culture are inextricably linked with one another. Thus the understanding of culture is not possible without knowledge of its language and vice versa. The circumstances under which a word is used‚ the sentence structures as well
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not sufficient to rely on one research‚ as renowned as the researcher would be (Whorf in our case). When we come across research findings‚ we need to cross reference them with other research findings and refrain from taking them for granted. Furthermore we should review our beliefs and check their validity from time to time (Like with “the truth about dinosaurs”). Despite the prominence of some claims‚ each hypothesis should be broadly tested by each researcher before taking them as an axiom. Unfortunately
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Starbucks coffeehouses in China is a sign of what aspect of culture? | | a. | innovation | | b. | globalization | | c. | diffusion | | d. | cultural relativism | 5) | c | Which of the following statements is true according to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? | | a. | Language simply describes reality. | | b. | Language does not transmit stereotypes related to race. | | c. | Language precedes thought. | | d. | Language is not an example of cultural universal. | 6) | d | Which of
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‘Communicating with children’‚ in Foley‚ P. and Leverett‚ S. (eds) (2008) Connecting with Children: Developing Working Relationships‚ Bristol‚ The Policy Press/Milton Keynes‚ The Open University. * Kay‚ P. and Kempton‚ W. (1984) ‘What is Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?’‚ American Anthropologist‚ vol. 86‚ no. 1‚ pp. 65-79 in Crow‚ G.‚ Foley‚ P. and Leverett‚ S. (2008) ‘Communicating with children’‚ in Foley‚ P. and Leverett‚ S. (eds) (2008) Connecting with Children: Developing Working Relationships‚ Bristol
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Robert K. Merton: self-fulfilling prophecy (reality made by an idea). Sapir-Worf Hypothesis: Culture is within language. Any interpretation of what reality is‚ is based on a society’s language. Every language has words and expressions that are specific to the language. Thomas Theorem: if someone believes in something‚ then it is
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Sociology Final Study Guide Chapter 1 1. Sociology is defined as the systematic study of human society. 2. Origins a. Sociology was the result of powerful social forces. Changes in Europe were very influential on the growth of sociology. b. 3 key changes that lead to the development of sociology i. New industrial economy : Rise of factory based industrial economy 1. People started inventing new ways to farm which lead to people working far away from home for strangers. This change in the
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which he hopes to be finished early this year. Ferdinand De Saussure (26 Nov 1857 – 22 Feb 1913) Ferdinand was an original Swiss linguist from Geneva renowned as one of the fathers of linguistics today; introducing for the first time the hypothesis that language was arbitrary. In other words he understood that thinking about language was like thinking about thinking‚ but his views sided indefinitely with the view that the way of language is completely learnt from birth as opposed to “nature”
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