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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