When Three-Year-Old Garret Is Coloring a Picture, He Carefully Selects

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Multiple Choice

When three-year-old Garret is coloring a picture, he carefully selects a brown crayon to color a tree trunk, a green crayon for the leaves in the tree, and a red crayon for the bird in the tree.When Garret is asked to name the colors he has been using, he confidently answers "blue" each time.The fact that Garret can distinguish between the colors, even though he can't accurately name them yet, suggests that:

• A)the linguistic relativity hypothesis provides an accurate description of the link between thought and language
• B)the exemplar theory provides the best explanation of the way in which new categories are formed
• C)the linguistic relativity hypothesis does not accurately reflect the link between thought and language
• D)the prototype theory does not provide an adequate description of the way in which new categories are formed

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Definitions:

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