Listen as Tyler poses one of the big questions in early
psychology: do we think in words or pictures? (MP3) (0:02:40)
Transcript: "Thinking...mentally manipulating information. Who
said that earlier? That's exactly right. There was an argument
for a long time about whether we thought using words or using
pictures. And this is one of those things, like, why did
psychologists argue about this? Who thinks that this
is...anyway? For a long time, early psychologists thought that
thinking was just sub vocal speaking, that you were just talking
to yourself in your head, and that was what constituted thinking
about something. What do you guys think about that? Do you think
that thought is really just talking to yourself in your head? Is
that all you do when you're thinking, just talk to yourself in
your head? I mean, you do. "Okay, guys, what do we have to do
today?" You probably don't call yourself "guys," but, "Okay,
Tyler, what do I have to do today? I have to give a lecture,
then I have to go get lunch, mmm, it's