Women's Language Style Has Been Stereotypically Associated with All of the Following

question 43

Multiple Choice

Women's language style has been stereotypically associated with all of the following EXCEPT

• A) politeness.
• B) indirectness and tentativeness.
• C) flowery adjectives.
• D) wordiness.
• E) clarity.

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Definitions:

Featural Analysis

A process in object recognition and perception involving the breakdown and analysis of sensory input into fundamental features or components.

Face Perception

The classification and recognition of stimuli that are faces.

Gestalt Psychology

A school of psychology emphasizing the study of whole entities rather than simple elements. Gestalt psychologists concentrate on problems of perception and problem solving, and they argue that people’s cognitive experience is reducible not to their experience of simple elements (e.g., sensations) but rather to the overall structure(s) of their experience.

Featural Analysis

A process where visual stimuli are broken down into constituent features for recognition, such as shape, color, and line orientation.