A hypothesis concerning the role of language is shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought is called:

Related Mcqs:

1. Parents in Westernized cultures are more likely than parents in Asian cultures to encourage children to value:

   A. enduring friendships
   B. nonconformity
   C. cultural traditions
   D. norms.

2. Wilson was the strong supporter of _________ plays vital role for shaping of behaviour?

   A. Genes
   B. Culture and environment
   C. Past life
   D. God or almighty

3. Freud stressed the role of _______ in shaping our personalities.

   A. the structure of the mind
   B. the function of our behaviors
   C. our history of rewards and punishments
   D. the unconscious

4. Which TWO of 1: Automatic thoughts are spontaneously generated thoughts associated with specific moods.
   2: Automatic thoughts are spontaneously generated thoughts associated with specific situations.
   3: In collaborative empiricism, the therapist formulates a hypothesis and then tests its validity himself.
   4: In collaborative empiricism, the client is asked to formulate a hypothesis and than helps the therapist to
   test its validity.the following definitions key features of Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy are accurate?

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 3 & 4
   D. 2 & 4

5. _____________ criticized the stimulus-response mode of thought?

   A. William McDougall
   B. Thorndike
   C. Watson
   D. None of these

6. Educational psychology can be regarded as an applied _____in that it seeks to explain learning according to scientifically determined principles and facts concerning human behavior:

   A. Art
   B. Phenomenon
   C. Out come
   D. Science

7. The orbitofrontal cortex: 1: Has critical implications for survival. 2: Serves a reward-decoding function. 3: Plays a very important role in emotion. 4: Is not involved in learning which stimuli are foods.

   A. 1,2 & 3
   B. 1 & 4
   C. 2,3 & 4
   D. 2 & 3

8. Jimmy is at the stage of language development where he uses one word to convey a complete thought or idea. This is called:

   A. holophrastic speech
   B. jargon speech
   C. telegraphic speech
   D. phonemes

9. Noam Chomsky posited that humans have a unique, inborn ability to understand the structure of language and to apply this to language learning. Chomsky called this the _______________?

   A. innate capability index
   B. innate surface structure ability
   C. prosody index
   D. language acquisition device

10. In the technique of shaping behavior, which of the following is used?

    A. positive reinforcement
    B. neutral acknowledgment
    C. negative reinforcement
    D. differential reinforcement