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Question: Does language determine the way we think?
Answer: Many studies have been done to find out the thinking process in infants before they learn language and the research supports the potential possibility of thought without language. Tests suggest that, in fact, infants really can think, and indeed grasp rather abstract, important concepts. For instance, three to four month old babies can understand that an object occupies its own space and so one solid object cannot pass through another solid object. Experiments show that five month old babies can do simple arithmetic....(short extract)
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- Subject: Psychology
- Course: Language and Communication
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 2192
- Date submitted: July 30, 2010
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 3329
