According to the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

question 154

Multiple Choice

According to the linguistic relativity hypothesis

• A) our thoughts dictate what words end up in the vocabulary of our language.
• B) the words available for us to use in our language greatly influences our thinking.
• C) thinking about saying a word activates the same brain area that would be involved in speaking the word.
• D) our concepts are organized in different levels according to our cultural backgrounds.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The return of a conditioned response that had been previously eliminated, following a timeframe where there was no contact with the conditioned stimulus.

CS-US Trials

In conditioning, trials where a conditioned stimulus (CS) is presented before an unconditioned stimulus (US) to create an association.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process by which a conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears.

Second-order Conditioning

A conditioning process where a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus through association with an already conditioned stimulus.