Older children can maintain more information in working memory than younger children because ___
a. pronunciation speed increases with age
b. the amount of information stored in semantic memory increases with age
c. scientific reasoning skills improve with age
d. central conceptual structures become more complex with age
A
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Regarding functionalism, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. William James contributed to both psychology and philosophy. b. William James did not use the technique of introspection. c. Compared to structuralism, functionalism focuses on the "why" of behavior. d. The functionalists believed that people develop habits because the habits help them adapt to the demands of living. e. William James believed that conscious experience could not be parceled into discrete units.
A typical child with Down syndrome will have cells with 47 chromosomes
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The theory that women developed additional stress responses aimed to protect, calm and quiet children, to remove them from harm's way, and to marshal resources to help is called:
a. fight-or-flight theory. c. The emotional social support theory. b. Seyle's General Adaptation Syndrome. d. tend-and-befriend theory.
Which of the following has been offered as an explanation for the fact that both deaf children who are not exposed to sign language and autistic children fail to develop a theory of mind?
a. Conversational experience is an important factor in the development of a theory of mind. b. Deaf and autistic children share a similar neurological deficit that inhibits the development of a theory of mind. c. Like autistic children, deaf children are born without the ability to socially engage other people. d. Deaf children who are not exposed to sign language tend to develop autism.