GCSE Psychology Unit 2: Language, Thought & Communication

What do YOU think these words mean?

The Effect of Language and Thought on Our View of The World

How does Language Affect Recognition of Colour?

Name the colours 11 in English!

Colour charts are used to get people to identify colours

Comparing English, Russian and Italian Languages:

The Dani People, Papua New Guinea The Dani language differentiates only two basic colours: mili for cool/dark shades such as blue, green, and black mola for warm/light colours such as red, yellow, and white. 

Separating Blue and Green? Tarahumara Native Americans do not have two words for green and blue

Berlin and Kay found that, in languages with fewer than the maximum eleven colour categories, the colours followed a specific evolutionary pattern. This pattern is as follows: All languages contain terms for black and white. If a language contains three terms, then it contains a term for red. If a language contains four terms, then it contains a term for either green or yellow (but not both). If a language contains five terms, then it contains terms for both green and yellow. If a language contains six terms, then it contains a term for blue. If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown. If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains terms for purple, pink, orange or grey.

How does Language Affect Recall of Events

Hopi – Native Americans

Piraha tribe - Brazil

Carmichael (1932) 2 groups of people were shown a series of nonsense pictures and given different labels to go with the pictures When asked to recall the image, the language label had a great influence on the drawing made