Chomsky believed that there are universal inherited predispositions to process language into grammar called:

a. language acquisition devices.
b. genetic proclivity.
c. deep structure.
d. social learning.


c. deep structure.

Psychology

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The theories that attribute differences in personality to one's culture, expectations, and mental processes are the __________ theories

a. trait b. humanistic c. psychodynamic d. social learning

Psychology

The area of the brain that appears to play a role in depression is the:

a. Broca's area c. corpus callosum b. anterior cingulate cortex d. prefrontal cortex

Psychology

Tina has suffered many rejections lately. Nothing she seems to do prevents those rejections, and now she has begun to believe that events in her life cannot be controlled by her behavior. According to Seligman, the expectation that life events cannot be controlled is called ______.

A. learned optimism B. learned irrelevance C. learned helplessness D. learned autonomy

Psychology

Sam has been drinking alcohol for several hours. Only the most obvious and immediate stimuli tends to catch his

attention with his normal restraint to engage in risky behaviors being severely reduced. Sam is exhibiting a condition known as a. alcohol myopia. b. binge drinking. c. divergent thinking. d. alcohol psychosis.

Psychology