When do toddlers experience their first vocabulary spurt (naming explosion)?
a. between 12 and 16 months c. between 2 and 2 ½ years
b. between 18 to 20 months d. between 3 and 3 ½ years
b
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Regarding cues for aggression, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Angry thoughts are considered internal cues for aggression. b. External cues for aggression may include words, actions, and gestures. c. Murders are much more likely to occur in homes where guns are kept. d. Aversive stimuli, such as high temperatures, lower one's overall arousal levels making one less sensitive to aggressive cues.
Jenna is serving on a jury. A witness has just identified the defendant as the person who committed the crime. Having read the Linkages section of the memory chapter, Jenna knows she can have confidence in the identification if the witness ____.?
a. ?can accurately remember irrelevant details about the situation b. ?can accurately describe the surroundings in which the crime occurred c. ?cannot accurately remember details about the crime d. ?cannot remember details about the surroundings
After doing a large-scale cross-sectional study, a researcher finds that each successively older group does slightly less well on a test of memory for 10-digit telephone numbers. Which of the following is the best interpretation of this result?
a. A basic biological change underlies the observed steady reduction of memory skill. b. The differences can be explained by gender of the participants. c. The difference has nothing to do with practice of memory skills. d. No interpretation can be made using this result.
Which of the following terms applies to thinking about how to think?
A) Knowledge B) Metacognition C) Abstract reasoning D) Cognition