A psycholinguist conducts an experiment with a group of participants from a small village in Asia and another from a small village in South America. She asked the groups to describe the bands of color they saw in a rainbow and found they reported the same number of bands as their language possessed primary color words. These results
a. support the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
b. contradict the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
c. support the word frequency effect.
d. contradict the word frequency effect.
a
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a. Express too much confidence in your answers on difficult questions. b. Do something you won't enjoy, just because you already paid for it. c. Look for evidence to support your current belief d. Answer a question differently, depending on how someone phrases it.
Mr. Link tries to help his students learn how to be assertive by having them watch how other students can be successful by acting assertively. Mr. Link is using principles of ____ to help his students
a. social learning theory b. operant conditioning c. cognitive-developmental theory d. psychosocial theory
Researchers have criticized Maslow's hierarchy of needs because:
A. it integrates biological and social needs B. it is difficult to assess some of his proposed needs C. people satisfy social needs before physiological needs D. it ignores the notion of basic needs
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
A confidence interval expresses the probability of a statistic, or one more extreme, occurring by chance when the null hypothesis is true.