Editing Cognitive development (section)

== Other theories ==

=== Whorf's hypothesis ===
{{Main|Linguistic relativity}}
While working as a student of [[Edward Sapir]], [[Benjamin Lee Whorf]] posited that a person's thinking depends on the structure and content of their social group's language. Per Whorf, language determines our thoughts and perceptions.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Whorf|first=Benjamin|date=1940|title=Linguistics as an Exact Science Language|journal=Thought and Reality}}</ref> For example, it used to be thought that the Greeks, who wrote left to right, thought differently than Egyptians since the Egyptians wrote right to left. Whorf's theory was so strict that he believed if a word is absent in a language, then the individual is unaware of the object's existence.<ref name="Hunt, E. 1991">{{cite journal | last1 = Hunt | first1 = E. | last2 = Agnoli | first2 = F. | year = 1991 | title = The Whorfian hypothesis: A cognitive psychology perspective | journal = Psychological Review | volume = 98 | issue = 3| pages = 377–389 | doi = 10.1037/0033-295X.98.3.377 }}</ref> This theory was played out in George Orwell's book, [[Animal Farm]]; the pig leaders slowly eliminated words from the citizen's vocabulary so that they were incapable of realizing what they were missing.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Mosenthal | first1 = P | year = 1975 | title = Language and thought | journal = Theory into Practice | volume = 14 | issue = 5| pages = 306–311 | doi = 10.1080/00405847509542592 }}</ref> The Whorfian hypothesis failed to recognize that people can still be aware of the concept or item, even though they lack efficient coding to quickly identify the target information.<ref name="Hunt, E. 1991" />

=== Quine's bootstrapping hypothesis ===
[[Willard Van Orman Quine]] argued that there are [[Bootstrapping (linguistics)#Acquiring nouns|innate conceptual biases]] that enable the acquisition of language, concepts, and beliefs.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Quine|first=Willard Van Orman|date=2013|title=Word and Object|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9636.001.0001|doi=10.7551/mitpress/9636.001.0001|isbn=9780262312790}}</ref> Quine's theory follows nativist philosophical traditions, such as the European rationalist philosophers, for example [[Immanuel Kant]].

=== Neo-Piagetian theories ===
{{Main|Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development}} Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development emphasized the role of information processing mechanisms in cognitive development, such as attention control and working memory. They suggested that progression along Piagetian stages or other levels of cognitive development is a function of strengthening of control mechanisms and is within the stages themselves.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sevinç |first=Gülşah |date=2019-05-31 |title=Bilişsel Gelişime Yeni Piagetci Yaklaşıma İlişkin bir Değerlendirme |journal=Ankara Universitesi Egitim Bilimleri Fakultesi Dergisi |doi=10.30964/auebfd.470159 |issn=1301-3718|doi-access=free }}</ref>