communication Flashcards
Piagets belief on language
Thought before language
Piagets theory in detail
sensorimotor-copy the sounds
understand concept but cant use
pre operational-rapid progress
accommodate new words
construatsimple sentences
Formal operational-communicta ein mature+logic way
egocentric
concrete operational-abstract, theoretical ideas
s+weakness of piagets theory
s- early development isn’t random
children already have some understanding
w- sapphire whole hypothesis
based on schema + abstract concept cannot be falsified
linguistic determinism
language determines thought
linguistic realism
idea that language influences thought
Sapir whole experiment
not possible to think about something if you don’t have the words for it
-language comes first
-language determines thought
research into Sapir whole experiment
Inuit snow
27 different words for snow
weakness of sapir wholf experiment
language influences the way we think about things but doesn’t completely influence what they think about
-Little difference in meanings for snow between Inuit and western countries
- Juts because someone has more words for something doesn’t mean the words came first
- people who raised deaf and mute people can still think
why animals communicate
survival
reproduction
territory
food
animal communication
-survival
vervet monkeys use a specific sounds to alert monkeys of predators
reproduction
this communicates the genetic fitness of the individual, females who mate with healthy males make healthy babies
territory
many species use scent to mark their territory
human vs animal language
human language is an open system;
words can be combined together in many different ways to express many different things. they use multiple channels
animals is a closed system bc communication is. ore basic
von frisch
bee study
