When given a set of cards depicting a series of events, English speakers arranged the cards from left to right,
speakers of Hebrew usually arranged the cards from right to left, and speakers of Kuuk Thaayorre, the language of the Cape York Australian aboriginals, used a temporal sequence from east to west in arranging the cards. These findings lend support to the
a. semantic differential theory.
b. transformational rule of language.
c. law of linguistic effect.
d. linguistic relativity hypothesis.
ANSWER: d
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a. midbrain b. forebrain c. hindbrain d. corpus callosum
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would best be labeled a. consummate love. b. companionate love. c. fatuous love. d. romantic love.
According to the "law of parsimony,"
A. a good theory generates a large number of hypotheses. B. the best theory is the one that explains a phenomenon with the fewest constructs. C. hypotheses are generated from theories. D. theories should require as few studies as possible to support them.
In one study, students who took a university psychology course had forgotten about what percent of the facts they had learned in this course after three years?
a. 70 percent b. 50 percent c. 30 percent d. 10 percent