Psychology / Unit 7 Psych 0763 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Linguistic Relativity
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The idea
Linguistic relativity is the position that the language a person speaks influences how they think about the world.
In practice
Speakers of languages with more basic color terms discriminate those colors somewhat faster.
Where people slip
Strong versions holding that language determines thought are not supported. Weak influence effects are.
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