What is Language?
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Emotion
A Little Bit of Both
ToK Review
100
This characteristic of language demonstrates that it can change and develop over time.
What is open-ended?
100
The theory of language that states: "Words must be defined according to their commonly accepted meaning"
What is Definition Theory?
100
This is a measurement of your emotional "smarts"
What is "Emotional Intelligence" or "Emotional IQ"
100

"What is in a name? That which we call a rose by another name would smell as sweet."  

Who is the author?

What is 'William Shakespeare'

100
Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Human Sciences, History, the Arts, and Ethics
What are the Areas of Knowledge?
200
Context, untranslatable words, and idioms are problems for this.
What is translation?
200

The doctrine that an action is right in so far as it promotes happiness, and that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the guiding principle of conduct.

What is utilitarianism

200
It is the primary "vehicle" that humans use to communicate emotion.
What is the human face?
200
The two reasons that emotions can be an obstacle to knowledge.
What are Rationalizations and Irrational Behavior?
300
Vagueness, ambiguity, secondary meaning, ___________, and irony are problems with determining meaning.
What is metaphor?
300
Theory of language that states: "the structure of a language affects the way its speaker thinks..."
What is the "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis"
300
Fear, surprise, anger, disgust, happiness, and sadness.
What are the primary emotions?
300
The idea that human language ability exists within us and language emerges from us when we're ready.
What is Emergencism?
300
The phrase that illustrates metaphorically the differences between belief and reality.
What is "the map is not the territory."
400
Grammar rules are an example of this characteristic of language.
What is rule-governed?
400
Theory that suggests that words are the literal representation of something. Example: Bird is a flying animal.
What is Denotation Theory?
400
The ability to acquire knowledge without the use of reason or inference.
What is intuition?
400
Body/Physical, Thoughts, and Behavior.
What ways to measure emotion?
400
Propositions that are "useful" or "work in practice" are central to this theory.
What is the Pragmatic Theory?
500

A characteristic of language that gets at the idea that communication is not an "accident."

What is intended?

500
Theory that suggests that words produce mental images. for example, when I hear "Mountain", my mind's eye sees a tall peak with snow.
What is Image Theory?
500
A feeling state that is short-term emotional state, typically lasting only a few hours.
What is a mood?
500

We use language to label and classify and this brings with it the danger of misclassifying things or forming these

What are stereotypes

500
The theory that suggests that stimulus produces both emotions and arousal at the same time?
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory?
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