Mental processes refer to all cognitive functions of the mind, including perception, memory, thinking, reasoning, imagination, belief, and emotion. Language influences thought by embedding implicit classifications of experience and cultural models in its grammatical patterns and categories, shaping how people think. There are three levels of human communication - the "what" of present facts, the "where" of future plans, and the "why" of relating past to future through motives. The human brain allows complex abilities like learning, perception, language, and creation through structures that can now be imaged to aid understanding.
Mental processes refer to all cognitive functions of the mind, including perception, memory, thinking, reasoning, imagination, belief, and emotion. Language influences thought by embedding implicit classifications of experience and cultural models in its grammatical patterns and categories, shaping how people think. There are three levels of human communication - the "what" of present facts, the "where" of future plans, and the "why" of relating past to future through motives. The human brain allows complex abilities like learning, perception, language, and creation through structures that can now be imaged to aid understanding.
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THIS A DESCRIPTION OF INFLUENCES OF THOUGHT ON LANGUGE.
Mental processes refer to all cognitive functions of the mind, including perception, memory, thinking, reasoning, imagination, belief, and emotion. Language influences thought by embedding implicit classifications of experience and cultural models in its grammatical patterns and categories, shaping how people think. There are three levels of human communication - the "what" of present facts, the "where" of future plans, and the "why" of relating past to future through motives. The human brain allows complex abilities like learning, perception, language, and creation through structures that can now be imaged to aid understanding.
Mental processes refer to all cognitive functions of the mind, including perception, memory, thinking, reasoning, imagination, belief, and emotion. Language influences thought by embedding implicit classifications of experience and cultural models in its grammatical patterns and categories, shaping how people think. There are three levels of human communication - the "what" of present facts, the "where" of future plans, and the "why" of relating past to future through motives. The human brain allows complex abilities like learning, perception, language, and creation through structures that can now be imaged to aid understanding.
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MENTAL
PROCESS ES
MENTAL PROCESSES DEFINITION Mental Process or Mental function are terms used interchangably for all the things that individuals can do with their minds.. These include perception,memory,thinking (such as ideation,imagination,belief,reasoning,etc)a nd emotion. Sometimes the term cognition funtion is used.
MENTAL PROCESSES Retrieve, recollects and retells information. Eg-Passage reading and answering questions . Readily making connections to new information based on past experience. Eg-Letter writing based on text or making a conversation. Deducts similarities and differences . Eg Rhyming words, comparing and contrasting, match the following. Classifies, categories and organizes information .
Eg: jumbled words.
Translates or transfers knowledge and understanding and applies them to new situation. Eg- Grammatical questions.
Mental processes Establishes cause and effect relationship. Eg-Any why. Makes connections, applies reasoning and draws interferences Eg-slightly indirect questions like significance of the title. Communicate effectively through different media. Eg-News, TV, Notice. Imagine, fantazies,designs and predicts based on received information. Eg-Anything creative. Judges, appraises and evaluates given information using previous knowledge.
What does language do to our brain connections?
The answer may be that we are more
poets than we think: in order to deliver feelings, poets use a vehicle called "metaphor". Metaphor is a powerful tool to shape a mind because it finds "connections" between things in the mind. The new connections enable the mind to "see" the world differently.
HOW LANGUAGE INFLUENCES
THOUGHT Language influences thought because it contains what Sapir had called "a hidden metaphysics", which is a view of the world, a culture, a conceptual system. Language contains an implicit classification of experience. Whorf restated Sapir's view in his principle of "linguistic determinism": grammatical and categorial patterns of language embody cultural models. Every language is a culturally-determined system of patterns that creates the categories by which individuals not only communicate but also think.
THREE LEVELS OF COMMUNICATION
there are three levels of human language: the "what", the "where", the "why". What are you doing is about the present. Where are you going is about the future. Why are you going there is about the relationship between past and future. Humans certainly exploit motives all the time. Without a motive a description is incomplete. It is common in Southeast Asia to greet people by asking "what are you doing?" The other person will reply "I am rowing the boat". The next question will be "where are you going?"And the last question will be "why are you going there?" With these three simple questions the situation has been fully analyzed, as far as human cognition goes.
HUMAN BRAIN The human brain is an amazing and powerful tool. It allows us to learn, see, remember, hear, perceive, understand and create language. New technologies like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allow researchers to see a picture of the brain at work helping them to understand how a brain reacts to a particular stimulus or how differences in brain structure can affect a persons health, personality or cognitive functioning.
