Keep in mind... if someone has been deaf their whole life, they have never heard words or spoke. Some might try to argue that they just sign in their head but our visual memory is so short that I don't think that is possible. If you close your eyes and try to remember every detail in a room or even try to create an image in your head you can't make a clear one. you can create words in your head.
2006-06-08 03:45:33 · 7 answers · asked by brandon j 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Great ! You indeed came very close to another fact, often overlooked by modern humans! It is about non-verbal thoughts. Right now, to explain, consider exclamatory words like "ha', 'eh', 'oops' etc. Only in a situation where we are taken by surprise, we feel (without sufficient awareness) the non verbal thoughts and yet struggle to express it (out of sheer force of habit) with such oh, ah , ha, eh etc..
Try to visualise our civilisation about 5 centuries ago. Just because money was not popular, the bulk of thought content of people then was NON-commercial. Today 99.9 % of thoughts can be traced to some kind of monetary bargain !
All this is just to put forth the scope and possibility that deaf could indeed have thoughts with themselves which might be qualitatively superior to our, though not of commercial value, or logical(instead they may be intuitional or shall I say super-logical !).
Give a 'non-verbal'(if possible) thought to this.. it could possibly take you even way beyond this brilliant question! Best wishes and good luck.
2006-06-08 03:58:50 · answer #1 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
That's probably one reason why deaf culture is so different than hearing culture. I suspect deaf folks are visual thinkers - think in pictures. There is a book out called "thinking in pictures" though you are right visual information is much more detailed and complex than the linearity of language. It would be as hard for a hearing person to understand how deaf folks 'think' i think as for a deaf person to understand how hearing folks 'think' and so i think we will not understand how deaf people think.
2006-06-08 03:48:51 · answer #2 · answered by BonesofaTeacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deafness merely has to do with your eardrum/ear canal. The 'voice' you hear once you imagine has not some thing to do with this part of your ear. even if or not they could conceptualize their concepts otherwise (in the adventure that they don't comprehend what it islike to take heed to then perhaps they imagine issues otherwise), their deafness has not some thing to do with the way they imagine.
2016-11-14 08:45:51 · answer #3 · answered by dubinsky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. the other senses of those who lose one sense are hightened, so they can most likely bridge the gaps that you and I may think are impossible
2. a deaf person can still understand the concept of words and read so they most probably get the whole word association thing and think in those terms as well
2006-06-08 03:50:05 · answer #4 · answered by L C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
umm wow tough one...but i think people who can hear like us think in words you know but a deaf person thinks it the same way just without sound....when his thoughts are being processed and reflected in his mind there would be words and meanings to them but they just arent prounced out and have a silent tone to them.....like sometimes rarely though we're thinking but not talking to outself cause out thoughts are silent especially the very deep ones..i think thats how it works with the deaf :)
2006-06-08 07:45:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deaf people can speak, and if your referring to being deaf and mute, does not mean they don't think and process vocabulary any less.
2006-06-08 03:51:27 · answer #6 · answered by DollyLama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is an amazing question, and i have no idea as to the answer. one of the many mysteries of life.
2006-06-08 07:10:00 · answer #7 · answered by Betty Sue 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋