When we use words to communicate ideas we typically don’t stop to consider whether our ideas come from our thoughts or whether our thoughts are shaped by our vocabulary. Often times we assume our ability for verbal expression is endless.

Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. Psycholinguistics is concerned with the cognitive faculties and processes that are necessary to produce the grammatical constructions of language.

Language is a highly complicated process that includes not only speech, but body language, and sign language for those who are speech impaired. Since the aspects of cognitive psychology include problem solving, decision making, learning, and speaking, to name a few, all correlate to language and language processing.

If there wouldn’t be language , we would be communicating through gestures. We would have to devise a new gesture for every emotion like anger, sadness, joy. The world would be less “noisier “ or absolutely noiseless due to absence of language . There wouldn’t be phones and mobiles in existence!.

Nowadays, we are able to communicate effectively with people from other countries by using English or even other languages. Thus, according to the Sapir-Whorf-theory, language is more than just a communication tool – it determines our perception of reality and influences our behavior.

Perception, as we have defined, is a generic term for the complex sensory control of behaviour. This is the primary reason why different individuals perceive the same situation in different ways. Understanding of the perceptual process helps us to understand why individuals behave in the way they do.