Professor Krizan is studying the remote people in the interior of New Zealand. She claims that there is a strong relation between their language and their way of thinking. In fact, she claims that language determines how they think. Her observations are most consistent with
A)the idea of heuristics
B)mental set
C)linguistic relativity hypothesis
D)means-ends analysis
E)functional fixedness

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The linguistic relativity hypothesis, also known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, suggests that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition. Professor Krizan's observations that language determines how the remote people in New Zealand think align with this hypothesis.

Professor Krizan Is Studying the Remote People in the Interior