When Three-Year-Old Garret Is Colouring a Picture of a Rainbow

question 199

Multiple Choice

When three-year-old Garret is colouring a picture of a rainbow, he carefully selects different colours for each stripe. When Garret is asked to name the colours he uses, he confidently answers "blue" each time. Garret can distinguish between the colours, even though he can't accurately name them yet. What does this suggest?

• A)Social communication theory does not accurately reflect the link between language and behaviour.
• B)Social communication theory provides an accurate description of the link between language and behaviour.
• C)The linguistic relativity hypothesis does not accurately reflect the link between thought and language.
• D)The linguistic relativity hypothesis provides an accurate description of the link between thought and language.

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