In the Text, Dan Slobin Talks About the "Thinking for Speaking

question 8

Multiple Choice

In the text, Dan Slobin talks about the "thinking for speaking" hypothesis. An example of this would be

• A) talking to yourself.
• B) cheering at a sports event.
• C) translating from English into Spanish.
• D) preparing a talk about what college is like for a class of 13-year-old public school students.

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Definitions:

Milgram Experiment

A psychological experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s to study obedience to authority figures, where participants thought they were administering electric shocks to another person.

Confederate

In psychological experiments, a confederate is an individual who seems to be a participant but is actually in on the experiment, helping the researcher manipulate the situation or observe participants' behaviors.

Obedience Levels

Measures or degrees to which individuals comply with commands, rules, or directives from authority figures.

Milgram Experiment

A collection of experiments in social psychology carried out by Stanley Milgram, aimed at assessing how likely it is for individuals participating in the study to follow commands from an authority figure that go against their own moral judgment.