Claude gets his mother’s attention by making a kind of grunting noise and then looks at the ball just out of his reach. Claude’s attempt to communicate his desire for the ball is an example of __________
a) semantics
b) babbling
c) language
d) prelinguistic communication
Answer: d
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a. It is a uniquely human quality. b. Only species with opposable thumbs develop handedness. c. Even parrots and crabs demonstrate the tendency for handedness. d. It is determined largely by one's sex.
According to your textbook, the most common cause of dementia is
a. repeated strokes. b. the interaction of medications. c. Alzheimer's disease. d. the general shrinkage and atrophy of the brain.
Adult cognition is closely tied to chronological age
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The observation that depressed people tend to favor recall of depressing memories is known as ________ memory
a. sociopathic b. anterograde c. mood-congruent d. retrograde e. encoding specificity