A Famous Lecturer Argues That Because the Hopi Indians Have

question 16

Multiple Choice

A famous lecturer argues that because the Hopi Indians have only two nouns for things that fly, one for birds and another for nonbirds, the Hopi MUST interpret all flying things in terms of these two nouns. This argument is based on ________.

• A) the idealized prototype construct
• B) bottom-up processing
• C) deep structure elaboration
• D) the linguistic relativity hypothesis

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Definitions:

Population Means

The average value of a characteristic in a population, and a parameter that is often estimated from sample data.

ANOVA

Analysis of Variance, a statistical method used to compare means of three or more samples, testing the hypothesis that all samples are taken from populations with the same mean.

Equal Variances

A statistical assumption that the variances of the items being compared are the same across all levels or groups.

ANOVA

ANalysis Of VAriance, a statistical method used to compare the means of three or more samples to find out if at least one is significantly different from the others.