Two people see a boy knock over a display of fruit at a market. One speaks a language that requires speakers to say whether an action was done on purpose or by accident. The other speaks a language that does not.
Use the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis to explain how the two people might differ when they recall the event a week later.
67 exam-style questions on Oxford AQA IGCSE Psychology 2.1 Communication, covering 2.1.1 Language and thought, 2.1.2 Variation in recall and colour recognition, 2.1.3 Human versus animal communication, 2.1.4 Von Frisch's bee study, 2.1.5 Properties unique to human communication, 2.1.6 Verbal and non-verbal communication, 2.1.7 Functions of eye contact, 2.1.8 Body language, 2.1.9 Personal space, 2.1.10 Darwin's evolutionary theory of NVC, and 2.1.11 Evidence NVC is innate or learned. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.