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 * __Sapir-Whorf thesis__: the idea that people see and understand the world through the cultural lens of language
 * In just about every episode Agent Lisbon and the other team members use technical words when discussing cases. In many instances they have to explain what they mean to Jane because he doesn't have the education and experience like they do.

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 * __Pastoralism__: the domestication of animals
 * Sometimes the CBI must bring in domesticated dogs to search for drugs and other evidence.
 * __Symbol__: anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture
 * Red John is a serial killer who killed Patrick Jane's wife and child. Wherever he kills someone he paints a smiley face in their blood on the wall so they know he was the one who did it.
 * ** Values: Culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and the serve as broad, guidelines for social living. **
 * ** In an episode, Jane makes the choice not to send a teenage girl to the Juvenile Detention Center because she is a good girl who killed her father for self defense. Jane uses his values of life to save the future of this girl, because he truly believed that she was good and what she did had to be done. **
 * ** Technology: Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings. **
 * ** The CBI team used technology to their advantage when a man takes hostages including Jane, they turn the speaker phones into microphones and placed camera's surrounding the building without anyone knowing. The technology that they used helped the CBI team know what Jane was doing at the given time. **
 * ** Post-industrialism: The production of information using computer technology. **
 * ** The CBI team uses computers to gather information about their suspects past and present activities whether legal or illegal. With the use of a cell phone and a computer the team is able to gather all the information that they need to arrest or put a warrant out for a suspect. [[image:camera.jpg width="262" height="184"]][[image:Pilot_the_mentalist.jpg width="232" height="185"]] **