GCSE Psychology - Language, thought, and communication #2

In the pre-operational stage, children's language:

• Develops rapidly

• Is logical and mature

• Contains single words only

• Is related to food only

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Language and thought

A weakness of Piaget's theory of language development is that:

• There is no evidence for it

• Schemas do not exist

• The number of children he used for his research was small

• Language is very difficult to measure

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Language and thought

The Sapir Whorf hypothesis suggests that:

• English and Eskimo speakers think about snow completely differently

• Language influences how we think about the world

• Memories and perception determine how language develops

• Our thought processes determine our language

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Language and thought

According the to 'weak' version of the Sapir Whorf hypothesis, if we don't have a word for a concept:

• We remember it better

• We think about it in many different ways

• We can't think about it at all

• We find it harder to think about

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Language and thought

In his study, Von Frisch made how many observations of honeybees over what time period?

• 5000 in 10 years

• 600 in 10 years

• 6000 in 20 years

• 500 in 20 years

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Von Frisch Bee Study

Honeybees communicate that a food source is far away with a:

• Slow waggle dance

• Fast round dance

• Fast waggle dance

• Slow round dance

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Von Frisch Bee Study

An example of animal communication is performed by white rhinos which mark their territory by:

• Performing a waggle dance

• Spreading the faeces around

• Performing a mating display

• Lifting their tail

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Human v Animal communication

Compared with animal communication, human language is:

• An open system

• A closed system

• Creative

• Useless for reproduction

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Human v Animal communication

Eye contact has been found to encourage:

• Hostility

• Aggression

• Friendship

• Turn-taking

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Non-verbal communication

When faces show a direct gaze, the most intense emotion is likely to be:

• Fear

• Sadness

• Disgust

• Anger

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Non-verbal communication