- (A) Whorf’s linguistic relativity hypothesis holds that language influences (or, in its initial
pronouncement, determines) thought. Therefore, referring to women as “girls” could affect the way
people think about women. Bandura’s social learning theory explains how people learn by
modeling the behavior of others. The nativist theory of language refers to Chomsky’s school of
belief that human beings are wired in such a way that we learn language quickly and easily. Signal
detection is a perceptual theory and arousal theory has to do with motivation.
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