CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

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It has been suggested that Eskimos’ rich vocabulary for describing snow enables them to perceive differences in snow conditions that would otherwise go unnoticed. This suggestion most clearly illustrates:
A
belief perseverance
B
the framing effect
C
linguistic determinism
D
the representativeness heuristic
E
functional fixedness
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -linguistic determinism. It has been suggested that Alaskan Eskimos’ rich vocabulary for describing snow enables them to perceive differences in snow conditions that would otherwise go unnoticed. This suggestion most clearly illustrates: linguistic determinism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Linguistic determinism is the concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception.

Detailed explanation-3: -A lexicon is the vocabulary of a language or subject.

Detailed explanation-4: -Damage to the posterior superior areas of the language dominant temporal lobe (often called Wernicke’s area) has been shown to significantly affect speech comprehension.

Detailed explanation-5: -Language is a symbolic system of communication based on a complex system of rules relating spoken, signed, or written symbols.

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