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6. What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
- Cognition influences language
- Native American tribes do not think about the future
- Language influences cognition
- The Ancient Greeks were colour blind
7. What bias did Pormpuraawans show when ordering time?
- Right
- Westward
- Toward
- Northward
8. What is currently the best predictor of later admittance into correctional facilities?
- Number of connections to the frontal lobe
- Educational level
- Resting heart rate
- Volume of the amygdala
9. How would a Kuuk Thaayorre speaker learn a dance?
- In relation to absolute terms
- In relation to left and right
- In relation to number
- In relation to the sun
10. What were the results of Winawer et al. (2007)?
- Russian speakers were faster than English speakers at making colour discrimination judgements, except when there was verbal interference
- English speakers were consistently faster than Russian speakers are making colour discrimination judgements in all conditions
- Russian speakers were consistently faster than English speakers at making colour discrimination judgements in all conditions
- Russian speakers were faster than English speakers at making colour discrimination judgements, except when the colours were across categories
11. What evidence showed that colour perception was affected by top-down processes?
- Static images induced activity in the motion area hMT
- Participants overestimated the extent to turn a banana grey, and added significantly more blue
- At the coarse level, there are little colour discrimination differences between cultures
- Participants added the exact amount to turn an image o banana grey
12. What is the cost of dementia in Europe?
- €798 billion pa
- €430 billion pa
- €110 billion pa
- €13 billion pa
13. What is the hypothesis of the weak form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
- Language alters perception
- Language and thought are independent
- Langauge primes thought
- Language constrains thought
14. Patients were asked to imagine doing what, in order to determine patients with 'locked in syndrome'?
- Playing tennis
- Dancing the waltz
- Playing frisbee
- Running along a beach