Imagine That Anthropologists Found a Culture That Had Over 80

question 21

Multiple Choice

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

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Definitions:

Assignable Causes

Specific reasons for variations in a process that can be identified and often corrected, unlike random causes that are inherent to the process.