Exam 14: Language, Culture, and Cognition

Studies of counterfactual reasoning in English- and Chinese-speaking individuals have demonstrated that:

In sum, the research on cross-linguistic color, number, object, and spatial naming:

Carroll and Casagrande (1958) examined form perception in Navaho-speaking children and English-speaking children. They found that:

The superiority of Asian children in acquiring early counting skills can be attributed to:

In Sera et al.'s (2002) study of gender marking, ________ children were more likely to assign a voice to an object based on the grammatical gender of the object:

Research on cross-cultural color naming __________ the _______ version of the Whorfian hypothesis.

Lucy's studies of the object-substance distinction in English and Yucatec speakers found that:

Comparing ___________ would provide evidence to test Whorf's hypothesis.

In a study of the effects of grammatical gender on cognition, Boroditsky, Schmidt, and Phillips (2003) found that when Spanish speakers were asked to describe objects that were masculine in their language they:

Whorf was chiefly concerned with:

Codability is defined as: