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  2. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    The color spectrum clearly exists at a physical level of wavelengths (inter al.), humans cross-linguistically tend to react most saliently to the primary color terms (a primary motive of Bornstein's work and vision science generally) as well as select similar exemplars of these primary color terms, and lastly comes the process of linguistic ...

  3. Emotional Stroop test - Wikipedia

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    The emotional Stroop test requires naming the colour of a word without reading the word as described earlier; however a flaw in this study design was investigated by Larsen & Balota, 2006. [18] This study showed that slower word recognition cannot be solely attributed to whether a word is emotional or not, and that lexical features could also ...

  4. Stroop effect - Wikipedia

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    This is based on the idea that word processing is significantly faster than color processing. In a condition where there is a conflict regarding words and colors (e.g., Stroop test), if the task is to report the color, the word information arrives at the decision-making stage before the color information which presents processing confusion.

  5. List of commonly used taxonomic affixes - Wikipedia

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    Frequently used to indicate maternal roles, this word should not be construed as translating directly to "mother" (Latin māter; Ancient Greek μήτηρ mḗtēr); aside from being a proper name, in Ancient Greek "maîa" can translate to "midwife" or "foster mother" and was used as an honorific address for older women, typically translated ...

  6. Words in Colour - Wikipedia

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    Words in Colour is an approach to literacy invented by Caleb Gattegno. [1] Words in Colour first appeared in 1962, published simultaneously in the UK and US. Later versions were published in French ( French : Lecture en Couleurs ) and Spanish ( Spanish : Letras en Color ).

  7. Delis–Kaplan Executive Function System - Wikipedia

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    The Twenty Questions Test measures the ability to categorize, formulate abstract, yes/no questions, and incorporate the examiner's feedback to formulate more efficient yes/no questions; The Word Context Test measures verbal modality, deductive reasoning, integration of multiple bits of information, hypothesis testing, and flexibility of thinking

  8. Environmental factor - Wikipedia

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    Abiotic factors include ambient temperature, amount of sunlight, air, soil, water and pH of the water soil in which an organism lives. Biotic factors would include the availability of food organisms and the presence of biological specificity , competitors , predators , and parasites .

  9. On Vision and Colours - Wikipedia

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    A chemical color is incomprehensible because we don't know its cause. Its appearance is only known from experience and it is not an essential part of the object. Chemical colors result from changes in an object's surface. A slight change in the surface may result in a different color. Color, therefore, is not an essential property of an object.