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Mental Processes

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 Processes

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.

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