In the 1950s,the Anthropologist Benjamin Whorf Argued That a Person's

question 67

Multiple Choice

In the 1950s,the anthropologist Benjamin Whorf argued that a person's language powerfully and irreversibly determines the possible range of that person's thoughts.In subsequent decades,this claim

• A)has been repeatedly supported,with examples coming from many different content areas.
• B)has been supported by the discovery that different cultures describe spatial arrangements in different ways and seem unable to learn new ways to describe these arrangements.
• C)has found little specific support,with the implication that language certainly guides our thoughts but does not influence what it is possible for someone to think.
• D)seems correct for some domains (e.g. ,color perception)but not for other domains (e.g. ,thinking about spatial relations).

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