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Langauge - colours and events

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What hypothesis did Benjamin Whorf investigate regarding language?

a)

Language influences culture

b)

Language influences thought

c)

Language influences behavior

d)

Language influences emotions

2.

Which Native American group was Whorf particularly interested in?

a)

The Zuni

b)

The Hopi

c)

The Navajo

d)

The Apache

3.

What was the main difficulty the Zuni had according to Brown and Lenneberg?

a)

Recalling numbers

b)

Recalling colors

c)

Recalling events

d)

Recalling names

4.

What did the research by Carmichael et al. (1932) suggest about memory?

a)

Memory is influenced by language

b)

Memory is influenced by emotions

c)

Memory is influenced by culture

d)

Memory is influenced by environment

5.

What did the Berinmo people of New Guinea struggle with according to Roberson et al. (2000)?

a)

Distinguishing between numbers

b)

Distinguishing between colors

c)

Distinguishing between shapes

d)

Distinguishing between sounds

6.

What is the effect of language on the recall of events according to the document?

a)

Language has no effect

b)

Language enhances recall

c)

Language influences recall

d)

Language diminishes recall

7.

What did the research find about the Hopi language and time?

a)

It has no concept of time

b)

It has a unique concept of time

c)

It has a similar concept of time to English

d)

It has a complex concept of time

8.

The Berinmo had ​ (a)   ​ names for colours.

Choose from the below words
five
two
ten
three
9.

Whorf studied what tribe?

(a)  

10.

Research into the Zuni people lacked what?

(a)