Language Flashcards
Week 12
Mental Representation
Images, ideas, concepts, principles. beliefs, emotions
Language
A flexible system that allows for symbolic representation of mental states
Thought
Internal Dialogue
Nicaraguan Sign Language
Sign language that was developed, spontaneously, by deaf children (gave researchers the opportunity to study birth of a language)
Psycholinguistics
Scientific study of psychology of language. Includes how we acquire language, and how we comprehend and produce it
Adjacency Pair
A speaker and a responder
Common Ground
Information shared by people in a conversation
Audience Design
Design statements with audience in mind, using common group to determine how much detail we need to give about the subject
Priming
Thinking about one concept and related to previously remembered concepts
Linguistic Intergroup Bias
Language bias that can increase stereotypes using abstract language to describe stereotypes and concrete language fro uncharacteristic behaviour
Social Networks
Allow gossip to spread
Social Brain Hypothesis
Brains have evolved to be larger and more complex to maintain social groups
Whorf Linguistic Hypothesis
Language completely determines thought and we can only think in ways that are allowed by our language
Theory of Mind
Ability for an individual to understand that other people have their own thoughts and knowledge (usually develops between ages 0 - 6)
Agents
Moving objects that act in their own
Recognizing Goals
Agents have goal - directed behaviours
Intentional
Agent is engaging in behaviour in that the agent believes will bring a desirable outcome
Imitation
Copying a behaviour observed in someone else
Mimicry
Copying observed behaviour, usually without being aware leading to behaviours being synchronized
Automatic Empathy
Mimicking/imitating a behaviour leads to feeling the emotion of the person you are mimicking
Joint Attention
Two people attending to the same thing, fully aware that they are both attending to it
Visual Perspective Taking
Perceiving something from another person’s visual point of view
Simulation
Representing another person’s mental state
Projection
Assuming that someone else’s knowledge, desires and feelings are the same as your own
Inferring Mental States
Being able to take another persons perspective, seperate from our own
False - Belief Tasks
Testing if a child understands that people have different information than them
Syntax
Rules by which words are strung together to form sentences
Situation Model
Mental representation of an event, object, or situation constructed at the time of comprehending a linguistic description
Conversational Coordination
In a conversation, people are likely to use the same syntactic structures, same expressions, and exhibit similar accents and rates of speech
