8.5 Making sense of what we see

Question 1

Carpentered world hypothesis

Answer 1

According to the
carpentered world hypothesis, people who live
in a world dominated by straight lines and right
angles (i.e. a world in which carpenters work)
tend to interpret images with acute and obtuse
angles as having right angles.

Question 2

Innate

Answer 2

An aspect of behaviour that an animal
shows from birth. Innate responses are always
shown by the organism in appropriate
circumstances.