Language, thought and communication part 1

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Across
  1. 2. The tribe that Brown and Lenneberg investigated and found that they couldn't distinguish between yellow and orange.
  2. 5. _______ operational; third stage of Piaget's theory; children focus on using language for concrete things.
  3. 6. theory that believes the language we speak influences/determines how we can think about things.
  4. 8. Passing information from one person (or animal) to another
  5. 9. theory that believes we cannot use language properly until we have an understanding of what we want to discuss.
  6. 12. A system of communication used by a specific group of people
  7. 13. The tribe that Whorf investigated and found to use a 'timeless language'
Down
  1. 1. Research found that people who speak this language found it easier to distinguish between shades of blue because there are different words for the shades.
  2. 3. Second stage of Piaget's theory; children are egocentric and struggle to speak about things from someone else's perspective.
  3. 4. First stage of Piaget's theory; when children start to discover their bodies and their ability to make sounds.
  4. 7. ______ operational; the final stage of Piaget's theory where children are able to use language to discuss abstract, theoretical and hypothetical ideas.
  5. 10. Researchers asked people who spoke this language to read about intentional and accidental incidents to see if their language affected their recall.
  6. 11. The mental activity of thinking which involves reasoning and considering and produces ideas and opinions