Researchers Have Found That, Despite the Number of Color Names

question 165

Multiple Choice

Researchers have found that, despite the number of color names in a language, the basic abilities to perceive color are unchanged. This finding would be troublesome for the theory of ________.

• A) Piccard and Whorf
• B) Sapir and Whorf
• C) Skinner and Watson
• D) Tolman and Thorndike

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