Cognition deals with mental activities that involve thinking, remembering, knowing, and communication. Today when I woke up and started getting ready for school I remembered that today was the last day to bring in money to help Hatti.
Concept is when we mentally put things in groups of similar people, events, objects, or ideas. Today when I was walking into the lunch room I saw a table that parents were selling prom tickets at. In my head I grouped the people going to prom as the juniors.
Mental Set is when we tend to solve a problem a certain way because it has worked in the past. This morning I was really tired and couldn't get up. My mom came in to try and get me up by opening my shades and turning the lights on. This woke me up and my mom has does it in the past because she knows it works and that I can't sleep with the lights on or when it is bright out.
Language the way we combine words, written or spoken, to communicate meaning. Today at lunch the girls at the table were telling stories and I put my opinion in and I did this by speaking and communicating verbally by using words to express the meaning that I had involving a story.
Grammar is used in language and involves a system of rules to help us communicate and understand others. In class today we watched an advocacy video and it showed a man with a sign that said "like Obama, I ain't the only one who wants change" ain't isn't correct grammar and it is a rule that it is not used correctly in society to understand others.
Linguistic determinism is Whorf's thought that language determines the way we think. When we hear people say certain words we connect certain meanings with them that if someone from another country who spoke a different language heard that word it wouldn't have any meaning to them. Today in foods class we presented information on other countries and people explained what some of the words meant in other languages. To me, not knowing that language, it didn't mean anything to me so i thought about it differently than someone who actually spoke the language. However, when i hear the translated word, i start thinking and making connections to my life.
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