Imagine that anthropologists found a culture that had over 80 different words for rice. If researchers also found that the people in this culture thought about and perceived rice in different and more elaborate ways than people who have only one word for rice, it would:
a. support the prototype theory of categorization
b. support the linguistic relativity hypothesis
c. provide evidence that the exemplar theory of categorization is incorrect
d. provide evidence that the linguistic relativity hypothesis is incorrect
B
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a. an innate tendency to follow moving objects. b. the ability of parents to instill their values into their children. c. severing ties from a social convoy. d. becoming attached to whomever provides oral gratification.
A person with dissociative identity disorder is to be someone different, such as when an adult acts and talks like a child
a. pretending b. practicing c. not pretending d. trying
According to the gate control theory:
a. rubbing a painful area triggers nonpainful impulses which compete with painful impulses b. the spinal cord allows only painful impulses to pass through and reach the brain c. pain is reduced by distracting yourself from thinking about the pain d. neural gates close when a person's emotional state calms down
The approach to understanding parenting that suggests that the roots of parent-child ways of relating to one another are found early in life is referred to as the ________ approach
A) discontinuity B) continuity C) reciprocal D) circular