Language, Culture, an Cognition in Development

Question 1

Theory Theory

Answer 1

Words and concepts develop together, in tandem

Question 2

Thinking for Speaking: The Frog Story

Answer 2

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- Children asked to tell story themselves and their narratives reflected their languages.

Question 3

Whorfian hypothesis

Answer 3

The structure of language determines how we conceptualize the world.

Question 4

Evidence against Whorfian hypothesis

Answer 4

Color perception. Some countries may have many different names for colors, some may have little, but they can still distinguish between colors.

> Can think about color categories beyond their language.

Question 5

Verb-friendly languages

Answer 5

Japanese, Korean

Question 6

Theory of mind

Answer 6

Ability to understand that other people have mental lives which guide their actions.

Question 7

Noun-friendly Language

Answer 7

e.g. English - more advanced ability to categorize objects.

Question 8

False-believe task

Answer 8

used to examine theory of mind (child’s ability to construct people in terms of internal mental states such as their beliefs).

> So in order to pass this, children must prove they understand that others have individual thoughts and knowledge to theirs.