P&C TB10 Lecture 1

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What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
Language influences cognition
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What is the hypothesis of the weak form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
Langauge primes thought
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How would a Kuuk Thaayorre speaker learn a dance?
In relation to absolute terms
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What bias did Pormpuraawans show when ordering time?
Westward
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How many colour terms in different languages were identified by Berlin & Kay (1969)?
2-11
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What evidence showed that colour perception was affected by top-down processes?
Participants overestimated the extent to turn a banana grey, and added significantly more blue
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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
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What explanation is there for the right visual field advantage in colour discrimination?
Language is processed in the left hemisphere
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What are the 3 R's?
Replacement, refinement, reduction
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What is macular degeneration?
Failure of the fovea (decay of the cone photoreceptors in the fovea)
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What is currently the best predictor of later admittance into correctional facilities?
Resting heart rate
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Patients were asked to imagine doing what, in order to determine patients with 'locked in syndrome'?
Playing tennis
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What is the cost of dementia in Europe?
€110 billion pa
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