Which of the following statements is true about speech perception?
A) Not until the end of the second year can toddlers "screen out" sounds not used in their native tongue.
B) Between 6 and 8 months, babies start to "screen out" sounds not used in their native tongue.
C) Young infants listen longer to nonspeech sounds than to human speech.
D) Newborns prefer speech that is fast, low-pitched, and monotone.
B
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a. People with extremely high or low test scores tend to get closer to the mean on a retest. b. The predictive validity of any test is lower than the reliability of the test. c. Children in small families tend to do better on IQ tests than children in large families. d. Performance on IQ tests tends to improve from one generation to the next.
A university's IRB is likely composed of mostly of whom?
A. social scientists B. lawyers C. administrators D. representatives from various departments
A longitudinal study (Zimmerman et al., 1997) found that the largest percentage (48%) of adolescents in grades 6 to 10 had self-esteem that was
a. moderate and rising. b. consistently high. c. low and decreasing. d. high to low.
The metaphysical position that is concerned with existence and which differentiates between appearance and reality is ______________.
a. epistemology b. existentialism c. ontology d. ideology