The rooting reflex
a. is a primitive walking response.
b. helps a breastfed baby find the mother's nipple.
c. helps babies adjust their sucking pressure to how easily milk flows from the nipple.
d. may have helped the infant cling to the mother in our evolutionary past.
Ans: b. helps a breastfed baby find the mother's nipple.
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a. simply sensational. b. statistical significance. c. squared sums. d. sum of squares.
Suppose a researcher compares 50 pairs of husbands and wives on a variety of attitudes. In doing so, the researcher is making use of _________________ samples with a ______________________ design
a. related; matched-samples b. related; repeated measures c. independent; matched-samples d. independent; repeated measures
In Papousek's conditioning of infants to turn their heads to a buzzer or a bell to receive milk, what were his findings?
a. The earlier the training began, the older the infants were before they mastered the task. b. The later the training began, the older the infants were before they mastered the task. c. The earlier that any training begins, the earlier the infants can master a task. d. The time when training begins has little effect on infants' ability to master a task.
According to the text, the principle of __________ refers to the idea that the same behavior is often produced by many different causes
A) determinism B) equifinality C) pluralism D) philosophical convergence