One-year-old Alex uses the word "hat" to refer only to his favorite blue baseball cap. Alex is demonstrating an __________ error
A) overextension
B) overregularization
C) underregularization
D) underextension
D
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In a classroom presentation, Kato reports, "Dissociative disorders are nonpsychotic conditions in which people develop physical problems even though there is no physiological cause. They are very rare." What error has Kato made?
a. Dissociative disorders do not involve physical problems. b. Dissociative disorders are physiologically caused. c. Dissociative disorders are psychotic conditions. d. Dissociative disorders are verycommon.
Three attributes that are components of temperament are
a. positive affect, irritability, and empathy. b. sorrow, spin control, and artificiality. c. activity level, conscientiousness, and irritability. d. positive affect, fearfulness, and activity level.
A series of landmark longitudinal studies begun in the 1950s with San Francisco longshoremen by Paffenbarger and associates found which of the following relative to coronary heart disease (CHD) and physical activity (PA)?
A) ?Men who began in worse shape had higher CHD death rates despite PA. B) ?Men who began in better shape had lower CHD death rates despite PA. C) ?Men who had less PA over time had significantly greater CHD deaths. D) ?Men who had more PA over time had significantly higher CHD deaths.
The set-point theory of body weight regulation is designed to explain
A) fluctuations in body weight. B) why the weights of adults stay constant. C) the relation between glucostatic and lipostatic theories. D) how peptides promote satiety. E) why obesity is so prevalent.