Running head: COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, THOUGHT 1
COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, THOUGHT
PSYCHOLOGY
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THOUGHT
The THOUGHT consists in the recovery and manipulation of previously encoded
and used information or to solve problems or without any specific purpose.
The INFORMATION is a mental representation of a:
- past personal experience.
- particular conception of the world.
- imagined state of the world.
Information can be expressed in linguistic form (thinking is like speaking), through
images (thinking is like perceiving: visual, auditory, motor imagination) or without
images.
WATSON stated that mental events in themselves are unobservable, and therefore
unusable, but if we reduce thought to implicit language (muscle movements and
mimicry) the latter can be studied.
Since sub-vocal / implicit language accompanies thought activity, Watson states that
sub-vocal thinking and language must be identified.
In 1947 SMITH stated that it was possible to think without using implicit language.
SHEPAR and MELTZER showed that mental rotation (the ability to rotate mental
representations of two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects) is analogous to the
physical one: the greater the angle of rotation between the two figures, the more it
takes time to decide on the identity of the latter.
Mental models are representations of real, hypothetical or imaginary situations. The
first to talk about it was the Scottish psychologist CRAIK according to whom the
COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, THOUGHT
PSYCHOLOGY
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, COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, THOUGHT 2
THOUGHT
The THOUGHT consists in the recovery and manipulation of previously encoded
and used information or to solve problems or without any specific purpose.
The INFORMATION is a mental representation of a:
- past personal experience.
- particular conception of the world.
- imagined state of the world.
Information can be expressed in linguistic form (thinking is like speaking), through
images (thinking is like perceiving: visual, auditory, motor imagination) or without
images.
WATSON stated that mental events in themselves are unobservable, and therefore
unusable, but if we reduce thought to implicit language (muscle movements and
mimicry) the latter can be studied.
Since sub-vocal / implicit language accompanies thought activity, Watson states that
sub-vocal thinking and language must be identified.
In 1947 SMITH stated that it was possible to think without using implicit language.
SHEPAR and MELTZER showed that mental rotation (the ability to rotate mental
representations of two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects) is analogous to the
physical one: the greater the angle of rotation between the two figures, the more it
takes time to decide on the identity of the latter.
Mental models are representations of real, hypothetical or imaginary situations. The
first to talk about it was the Scottish psychologist CRAIK according to whom the
