COGNITION
THINKING CONCEPTS AND CREATIVITY
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Question
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mental set
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critical period
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linguistic determinism
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availability heuristic
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representativeness heuristic
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Detailed explanation-1: -One common example of linguistic determinism is the idea that the Inuit have a much more sophisticated understanding of snow than people from other cultures do because Inuktitut has many different words for snow.
Detailed explanation-2: -Linguistic determinism is the concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, also known as the linguistic relativity hypothesis, refers to the proposal that the particular language one speaks influences the way one thinks about reality.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Hopi have no past tense for their verbs, and so it is very difficult for Ahote to think about the past. Benjamin Whorf would suggest that this is caused by: linguistic determinism.