Toward the end of the first year of exposure to speech, our auditory functioning undergoes a reorganization that reduces sensitivity to sounds not part of our native language. This is an example of

a. auditory awareness. c. phonemic balancing.
b. perceptual narrowing. d. sound destimulization.


B

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Social support is associated with all of the following except

a. prolonging a cancer victim's life. b. lowering a person's blood pressure. c. suppressing the immune system's response to stress. d. reducing suicidal thoughts among individuals infected with HIV.

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Some individuals who ____ suffer from "paralysis of analysis.". They will often ruminate endlessly about which goal to pursue and believe there is never sufficient information to make a commitment

a. procrastinate c. have too many goals b. are perfectionists d. lack goals

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According to the two-stage decision model of helping, ______ leads to emotional arousal while ______ is tied to a decision about how much help to give.

a. kinship, evolution b. empathy, sympathy c. sympathy, empathy d. dissonance, appraisal e. emotion, cognition

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Which statement about marriage in the U.S. is true?

a. People are getting married later in life. b. Most couples believe in voluntary marriage. c. Intercultural marriages are more conflict-prone but not more divorce-prone. d. All of these are true.

Psychology