User talk:Em736458

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Blog 1: Language and Thought
The lecture by Aaron Newman on Wednesday December 12th outlined the idea of language and thought and further attempted to describe the relationship between them. What I thought was the most interesting was the diagrams presented under “the influence of language and thought”. The diagram was used in a study by Carmichel, Hogan, & Walter (1932), where the participants were asked to view the diagram of 2 circles connected by a line. They were then given 1 of 2 verbal captions, either stating eyeglasses or dumb-bells. What was really interesting was that the participants that were given the verbal captions then asked to reproduce the original diagram altered it fit the caption. I found this really interesting because the human brain unconsciously has a schema for the verbal captions and is able to distort the memory of the original diagram. I think this study was really very interesting and really got me excited about the dynamic between language and thought. I really look forward to unraveling this idea more. When doing research on this topic I found interesting suggestions that tests like this should be preformed on adults and children, because there is little evidence about the cognitive construction that is taking place, to me this was also really interesting. Em736458 01:24, 17 January 2011 (UTC)