"mental" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Pinker also distinguishes language from humans' general reasoning ability, emphasizing that it is not simply a mark of advanced intelligence but rather a specialized "mental module".
- They do not tend to talk about a God module per se; they usually consider belief in God a consequence of other mental modules.
- A second mental module that primes us for religion is causal reasoning.
- This impenetrability of the information elaborated by the mental modules limits the scope of interpretationalism.
- It is this impenetrability of the information elaborated by the mental modules (informationally encapsulated) that limits the extent of interpretationalism.
- Langs' research led him to posit the existence of a mental module he terms the "emotion-processing mind," a psychic function which evolved to ensure the survival of the species.
- Langs sought to explain biologically why these distinct mental modules (and others) function as they do, from an evolutionary standpoint.
- Thus humans have a mental module for disgust - a universal human emotion with its own facial expression.
- Presumably, infants are using a different system, or mental module, from the one rats use to decide when they have reached 45 and that people use to list the cardinal numbers.
- Evolutionary psychology (EP) posits that the mind is made up of a massive number of interacting emotional, motivational and cognitive adaptations or "mental modules."
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