A specific phobia involving motorcycles can develop as a result of a predisposition to develop fear combined with
a. watching another person experience a motorcycle accident.
b. hearing your mother repeatedly warn you about the doom associated with motorcycles.
c. experiencing a traumatic event yourself, such as a motorcycle skid.
d. all of the above
Answer: d. all of the above
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Which of the following was observed in research that examined the influence of parenting practices on peer group membership?
a. Parents who ignore their children have children who stay at home more. b. Parents who emphasize academic achievement have children who belong to the "popular" crowd. c. Parents who love and support their children have children who bring their friends back to the house after school. d. Parents who do little to involve their children in decision-making have children who are socially rejected.
Shannon and Tom are worried about their newborn son, Harrison. They've noticed that his eyes and ears are growing much more rapidly than his arms and legs. Is this a problem?
A) Yes. It's normal for everything to grow at the same rate. B) Yes. It's normal for the arms and legs to grow faster than the eyes and ears. C) No. It's normal cephalocaudal development. D) No. It's normal proximodistal development.
In a classic study on social facilitation that involved college
students shooting pool at a student union, it was found that when being watched by others, good pool players who were confident in their pool playing a. became very self-conscious, and their pool-playing suffered significantly. b. improved their accuracy. c. showed no change in their pool shooting ability. d. became extreme showman and took risky shots, many of which did not pay off.
Theorists taking an interactionist approach to language acquisition
A. remain unconvinced by the idea of a language-acquisition device. B. downplay the role of the environment in language acquisition. C. agree that the brain is hardwired to acquire language. D. reject both the learning theory and nativist approaches.