Dr. Whorf believes that language structures the way we perceive the world. Therefore, people who speak various languages conceptualize the world in different ways. What is this called?
a. infinite creativity in language c. variations in rules of grammar
b. the linguistic relativity hypothesis d. the displacement hypothesis
B
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What do we mean when we say a disorder is ego-syntonic?
Answer:
Dissociative fugue is best described as ____
a. a generalized amnesia for one's identity and life history that may be accompanied by bewildered wandering or purposeless travel b. lack of memory for a specific event or events c. a condition in which two or more independent personality states appear to exist in one person d. feelings of unreality concerning the self and the environment
When beginning a project involving human participants, approval must be obtained from
a. the CHUA b. the department chair c. the NSF d. the IRB
In research by Nisbett and Wilson, research participants read information about a woman who spilled coffee during a job interview. The surprising finding of this study was that
a. research participants were quite accurate in indicating why they liked or did not like the applicant. b. although the research participants believed that spilling coffee made them like the applicant less, it actually made them like her more. c. although the research participants did not know it, spilling coffee actually made them like the woman less. d. there was no observed relationship between the spilling of coffee and the research participants' liking of the woman.