When three-year-old Garret is colouring a picture of a rainbow, he carefully selects different colours for each stripe. When Garret is asked to name the colours he uses, he confidently answers "blue" each time. Garret can distinguish between the colours, even though he can't accurately name them yet. What does this suggest?

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Garret's ability to distinguish colours but not name them suggests that thought (distinguishing colours) can occur independently of language (naming them), which challenges the linguistic relativity hypothesis that language influences thought.

When Three-Year-Old Garret Is Colouring a Picture of a Rainbow