Three-year-old Meghan is at the park when a tongue-wagging golden retriever approaches her. Meghan quickly glances at her mom in an effort to determine if petting the dog is safe. Meghan is demonstrating:
A) signal detection.
B) social referencing.
C) imitation.
D) joint attention.
B) social referencing.
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How would the network theory of memory explain the time that you thought of baseball, and in a few seconds you ended up thinking about toothpaste?
A. You were following personal associations, or mental roads, traveling from node to node. B. There were objects in your present environment related to both baseball and toothpaste. C. You were randomly sorting through many, many memories. D. Unfortunately, examples like this are not easily explained by the network theory of memory.
Marcia has been diagnosed with binge-eating disorder. Which characteristic will we expect to see in her? a. She is not concerned with her eating habits
b. She is underweight. c. She overeats and engages in regular compensatory behaviors such as purging. d. She has to deal with prejudices of overweight individuals.
The nature/nurture issue is essentially the interaction of
a. genetics and heredity. c. culture and family. b. society and the individual. d. biology and experience.
Multiple sclerosis is a disease in which the immune system mistakenly destroys some of the myelin wrapped around nerve cell fibers. Which nerve cell fibers are being attacked by this process?
A. Synapses B. Axons C. Dendrites D. Mitochondria