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WorksheetsLangauge - colours and events
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
What hypothesis did Benjamin Whorf investigate regarding language?
Language influences culture
Language influences thought
Language influences behavior
Language influences emotions
Which Native American group was Whorf particularly interested in?
The Zuni
The Hopi
The Navajo
The Apache
What was the main difficulty the Zuni had according to Brown and Lenneberg?
Recalling numbers
Recalling colors
Recalling events
Recalling names
What did the research by Carmichael et al. (1932) suggest about memory?
Memory is influenced by language
Memory is influenced by emotions
Memory is influenced by culture
Memory is influenced by environment
What did the Berinmo people of New Guinea struggle with according to Roberson et al. (2000)?
Distinguishing between numbers
Distinguishing between colors
Distinguishing between shapes
Distinguishing between sounds
What is the effect of language on the recall of events according to the document?
Language has no effect
Language enhances recall
Language influences recall
Language diminishes recall
What did the research find about the Hopi language and time?
It has no concept of time
It has a unique concept of time
It has a similar concept of time to English
It has a complex concept of time
The Berinmo had (a) names for colours.
Whorf studied what tribe?
(a)
Research into the Zuni people lacked what?
(a)
