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A woman attends a lecture on the relationship between language and thought given by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf. She would most likely hear them express the hypothesis that

a. there are cross-linguistic differences in thought. b. language and thought are not related. c. language processes are primarily learned, while thought processes are primarily inborn. d. each member of a language community thinks very differently from every other member of that same community.

Which of the following is the best description of a research method?

a. an intuitive process by which cause and effect can be established b. a systematic process for answering scientific questions c. any experiment that lacks a control group d. an investigative observation that relies on commonsense reasoning