Professor Anderson has discovered a primitive tribe in the Amazon rainforest and has studied their language.She has found that this tribe has only seven emotions.She reasons that they should only perceive these seven emotions.She is basing her hypothesis on:
A) the psychometric approach
B) Chomsky's theory of language acquisition
C) the social learning approach
D) the theory of linguistic relativity

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The theory of linguistic relativity, or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, suggests that language shapes or influences our perception of the world. In this case, Professor Anderson's hypothesis that the tribe perceives only seven emotions is based on her assumption that their language only has words for these seven emotions. Therefore, her hypothesis is based on the theory of linguistic relativity.

Professor Anderson Has Discovered a Primitive Tribe in the Amazon