GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Thinking is not possible without language
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Language is used in all forms of thought
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Language provides a means of representing the world in symbols that are easy to manipulate
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Thinking and language are the same thing
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The correct answer is c. Language translates the world into symbols that are easy to manipulate.
Detailed explanation-2: -Language is a symbolic tool that we use to communicate our thoughts as well as represent our cognitive processes. Language is the mirror of thinking, and it is one of the ways in which we communicate our rich cognitive world.
Detailed explanation-3: -The language of thought hypothesis (LOTH) is a foundational and yet largely empirical thesis about how thoughts (as states) and thinking (as processes) are realized in creatures with sufficiently complex minds. It postulates a language-like system of mental representations as the vehicles of thought and thinking.
Detailed explanation-4: -Edward Sapir and his pupil Benjamin Lee Whorf developed the hypothesis that language influences thought rather than the reverse. The strong form of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis claims that people from different cultures think differently because of differences in their languages.
Detailed explanation-5: -The language of thought hypothesis (LOTH) is the hypothesis that mental representation has a linguistic structure, or in other words, that thought takes place within a mental language. The hypothesis is sometimes expressed as the claim that thoughts are sentences in the head.