When three-year-old Garret is coloring a picture, he carefully selects a brown crayon to color a tree trunk, a green crayon for the leaves in the tree, and a red crayon for the bird in the tree.When Garret is asked to name the colors he has been using, he confidently answers "blue" each time.The fact that Garret can distinguish between the colors, even though he can't accurately name them yet, suggests that:
A)the linguistic relativity hypothesis provides an accurate description of the link between thought and language
B)the exemplar theory provides the best explanation of the way in which new categories are formed
C)the linguistic relativity hypothesis does not accurately reflect the link between thought and language
D)the prototype theory does not provide an adequate description of the way in which new categories are formed

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Garret's ability to distinguish between colors despite not being able to accurately name them suggests that the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which proposes that language shapes and affects thought, may not be entirely accurate. If language were the sole determinant of thinking and categorization, Garret would not be able to differentiate between the colors he is using. However, his ability to distinguish between them shows that there may be other cognitive processes at work in categorization and thinking. This is evidence against the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which suggests that language determines all aspects of thought and cognition.

When Three-Year-Old Garret Is Coloring a Picture, He Carefully Selects