When three-year-old Garret is coloring a picture, he carefully selects a brown crayon to color a tree trunk, a green crayon for the leaves in the tree, and a red crayon for the bird in the tree. When Garret is asked to name the colors he has been using, he confidently answers "blue" each time. The fact that Garret can distinguish between the colors, even though he can't accurately name them yet,
suggests that:
a. the linguistic relativity hypothesis provides an accurate description of the link between thought and language
b. the exemplar theory provides the best explanation of the way in which new categories are formed
c. the linguistic relativity hypothesis does not accurately reflect the link between thought and language
d. the prototype theory does not provide an adequate description of the way in which new categories are formed
C
You might also like to view...
Who would have the highest IQ?
a. Tom, who is 10 years old and has a mental age of 15 b. Brady, who is 15 years old and has a mental age of 10 c. Payton, who is 15 years old and has a mental age of 20 d. Manning, who is 20 years old and has a mental age of 15
The dimension of light that produces color is:
a. accommodation b. hue c. brightness d. transduction
The training that Witmer envisioned for clinical psychology was most compatible with the education leading to which of the following degrees?
a. Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) b. Doctor of Psychology degree (PsyD) c. Master of Arts degree (MA) d. Master of Science degree (MS)
Why would cognitive attributional processes be involved in helping us label emotions?
a. All arousal has a cognitive component. b. All arousal is social in origin. c. In many situations, there is more than one plausible cause for arousal. d. Extreme arousal short-circuits rational cognitive processes.