Spelke, Hirst, and Neisser attempted to teach participants to simultaneously take dictation and read with comprehension. Their results suggests that ______.
a. no amount of practice can teach people to do two things at once without a drop in performance
b. people could eventually reach accurate performance on the dictation task, but reading
comprehension still suffered
c. people could eventually reach accuracy in reading comprehension, but in doing so they
sacrificed accuracy in dictation
d. after 6 weeks of practice, people could simultaneously take dictation accurately and read with
normal comprehension
d. after 6 weeks of practice, people could simultaneously take dictation accurately and read with
normal comprehension
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a. coercive inheritance b. natural selection c. randomized lineage d. genetic exclusion
Although in the 1970s educational innovations were often transferred to new settings with precisely copied "cookbook" instructions, today the emphasis is on:
a. having program developers train staff in the new setting. b. specifying fragile components and having program developers implement them. c. creating innovative programs in each setting, based on best practices. d. interdependence rather than cycling of resources.
Three-year-old Tristan finds a dead fish on the beach. Although he says that the fish is dead, he asks, "When is the fish going to get up and swim?" Tristan is having trouble understanding the death concept of
A) permanence. B) inevitability. C) cessation. D) applicability.
Which of the following is an example of a delusion?
a. Bob thought the CIA was controlling his thoughts. b. The voices in Jaimie's head told him not to trust the priest. c. Tracy did not think she could get pregnant the first time she had sex. d. Carla saw and felt bugs crawling up her arm.