Hearing, "The ape held the qwaff and ate it," a child guesses that "qwaff" is a type of food from the way this new word was used. This is
a. syntactical bootstrapping.
b. a lexical contrast constraint.
c. the binding of a free morpheme.
d. a fast-mapped expressive style.
A
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In order to achieve their goal of making psychoanalysis a part of scientific psychology, the ego psychologists ____
a. ?modified psychoanalytic psychotherapy b. ?operationally defined Freud's constructs c. ?pursued the experimental study of psychoanalytic hypotheses d. ?All of the choices are correct. e. ?None of the choices are correct.
Individuals interested in biological, emotional, cognitive, personal, and social factors across the life span are called:
A. humanistic psychologists B. behavioral psychologists C. developmental psychologists D. psychoanalytic psychologists
According to transactional analysis, the preferred ego state is
a. parent (positive). b. adult (positive). c. child (positive). d. more than one of the above
In Steele's 1997 study on race and academic performance, he administered a difficult academic test to black and white students. Some students were told it was a lab test, others were told it was a test of academic ability
Which of the following best describes the outcome of this study? a. Individuals in both conditions performed poorly regardless of their race. b. White students performed better than black students regardless of which testing condition they were assigned. c. Black students performed better than white students regardless of which testing condition they were assigned. d. When told the test was a lab test, there were no racial differences in performance; when told it was a test of academic ability, there were racial differences in performance.