As an infant's short-term and long-term memory improve he or she should also get better ____
a. with the creation of personal fables
b. in their degree of egocentrism
c. at the task of object permanence
d. speaking to an imaginary audience
C. Memory studies using object permanence tasks show that the number of locations infants can remember and search to look for a hidden object increases sharply in the second half of the first year.
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a. pain disorder b. illness anxiety disorder c. conversion disorder d. somatic symptom disorder
After many jobs in clinical psychology shifted from academic to private practice settings in the 1960s,
a. complaints arose about the adequacy of the Boulder model for practitioners. b. many college and university psychology departments shrank due to problems retaining their faculty. c. the qualifications required to practice clinically became much more rigorous than before. d. the qualifications required to enter graduate school in clinical psychology became less rigorous than before.
Which of the following findings has recently emerged from neuroscience research on reading?
A) Activity shifts to the left hemisphere with increased skill in reading. B) Different written languages are processed in different areas in the brain. C) Reading interventions with dyslexics creates neural activity patterns similar to nondisabled readers. D) all of the above
Cystitis is a(n) ________.
A. vaginal infection caused by a sexually transmitted virus B. inflammation of the cervix caused by irregular menstrual periods C. bladder infection caused by bacteria entering the urinary tract D. inflammation of the vaginal wall caused by vigorous sexual intercourse