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.
D
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A) those wearing the shirt overestimated the likelihood other students would notice their t-shirt. B) those wearing the shirt underestimated the likelihood other students would know the singer's name. C) other students attributed negative characteristics to the student wearing the salient shirt. D) other students paid less attention to the content of what was said by the student wearing the t-shirt.
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designs. a. quasi-experimental c. single-case experimental b. correlational d. double-case experimental
Publishing in peer-reviewed journals tend to be the easiest way for scientists to communicate their work to others.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)