Yes. There are vigorous debates in cognitive psychology about how dependent people are on internal speech. I think many people do good thinking without using literal internal self-talk. But the conceptual representations they use for thinking are still shaped by the words they’ve learned.
Yes. There are vigorous debates in cognitive psychology about how dependent people are on internal speech. I think many people do good thinking without using literal internal self-talk. But the conceptual representations they use for thinking are still shaped by the words they’ve learned.