Language,thought and communication - Paper 2

Question 1

what are the 4 stages to piaget’s theory

Answer 1

• sensory motor
• preoperational
• concrete operational
• formal operational

Question 2

according to piaget what come first, language or thought

Answer 2

language depends on thought

Question 3

what does piaget believe about cognitive development

Answer 3

cognitive development leads to the growth of language

Question 4

why is piagets theory not generalisable

Answer 4

because there was a small sample

Question 5

why was piagets theory not reliable

Answer 5

only piaget carried out the study so it could have been biased

Question 6

what did sapir whorf suggest about language

Answer 6

• it could lead us to focus on cirtain things
• could make some ways of thinking more likley than others
• could lead to a memory bias

Question 7

according to sapir whorf what comes first language or thought

Answer 7

thought and behaviors are affected and formed by the language we speak

Question 8

according to sapir -whorf language comes before thought - what does this mean for different cultures

Answer 8

cultures with different languages will have very different ways of thinking and understanding things

Question 9

why is the weak version of the sapir whorf hypothesis preferred

Answer 9

it says that language is only infleuenced by thought and only plays a small part,this allows for other factors to be taken into account

Question 10

what does the strong version of the sapir whorf hypothesis say

Answer 10

language determines thought so if a particular language has no words for a certain thought object or idea then people who speak that language will have no way of thinking about it

Question 11

what are the 4 main reasons that animals communicate

Answer 11

food
reproduction
territory
survival

Question 12

what are the zones of personal space

Answer 12

public space = random people
social space = people you know
personal space = friends
intimate = family and pets

Question 13

give 3 examples of open body language

Answer 13

hands on hips
waving
talking with hands

Question 14

give 3 examples of closed body language

Answer 14

crossed arms/legs
head down
hands in pockets

Question 15

what is postural echo

Answer 15

when people who get on well together are seen to adopt one anothers posture

Question 16

what are 2 factors affecting personal space

Answer 16

status
culture

Question 17

what was the aim of yuki’s emoticon study

Answer 17

to investigate how culture affects facial cues are used when understanding peoples emotions

Question 18

what type of design was Yuki’s emoticon study

Answer 18

questionaire

Question 19

what was the method for Yuki’s emoticon study

Answer 19

6 combinations of eyes and mouths the eyes and the mouths were either happy neutral and sad participants had to rate how happy each face was

Question 20

what were the results of yuki emoticons study

Answer 20

japanease students gave the highest taking for happy eyes. american students gave highest ratings for happy mouths

Question 21

what was the conclusion of yuki emoticons study

Answer 21

people learn cultural norms on expression and interpretation of emotions

Question 22

what was the aim of von frisch bee study

Answer 22

bees can communicate by dancing-how do bees communicate

Question 23

what was the method of von frisch bee study

Answer 23

studies the bees in their natural enviroment- sometimes changing elements of it to see if the effect on the behaviour controlled observation- made 6000 observations

Question 24

what were the results of von frisch bee study

Answer 24

bees have 2 dances- round dance: food is less than 100m away `
waggle dance- food is further than 100m away and he found that they show the direction of the food

Question 25

what was the conclusion of von frisch bee study

Answer 25

60% of bees went to the food source at the distance indicated bees communicated by dancing-they use different dances depending on the where the food is