The text reports a study that found that bilingual children in the U.S. and the U.K. scored lower on standardized tests than did monolingual English-speaking children. However, this result was suspect because:
a. the study did not take into account the socioeconomic level of the children's families
b. the children were highly intelligent to begin with
c. the second language was Japanese, which is a very difficult language for English-speakers to learn
d. the bilingual children were older than the children who learned only English
a
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The term for the set of factors that initiate and direct behavior, usually toward some goal is:
a. intelligence b. emotion c. thinking d. motivation
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A. egocentrism B. animism C. centration D. metacognition
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a. long-term potentiation c. automaticity b. priming d. reciprocity