Children read slowly when they first learn to read because they have to sound out each letter of a word
However, reading speed increases with practice, and children eventually become so good at reading words as wholes that they wouldn't be able to inhibit the skill if they tried. This example illustrates the process of ___.
a. encoding
b. automatization
c. metacognition
d. biological maturation
B
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Long-term marriage partners show more similarities with each other due to a lifetime spent in each other’s company, along with a(n) ____ (O’Rourke & Cappeliez, 2005).?
a. ?accurate assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of their relationship b. ?a decrease of the opportunity of other relationships c. ?lack of attention to past negative events and personality traits d. ?healthy engagement in conflict when necessary
You are daydreaming in the middle of a lecture. Daydreaming is a type of
a. Sensory b. Cognition c. Shaping d. Retrieval e. Phallic
Luke is a developmentally normal kindergartener. Who is is peer?
a. A kindergartener with Down syndrome with whom he share no interests b. A fifth-grader with Asperger's with whom Luke loves to play Star Wars c. A third-grader who is intellectually advanced and prefers to interact with teens d. A teenaged babysitter that Luke loves to play board games with
Recent meta-analyses of cognitive sex differences indicate
a. a large female advantage in verbal skills. c. a small female advantage in verbal skills. b. a large male advantage in verbal skills. d. a small male advantage in verbal skills.