Describe how children acquire adult rules of grammar
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should describe how children add inflections and function words to their
speech. It should also point out that children frequently misapply the rules of adult grammar,
especially when using verbs. A strong answer will include examples.
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Rosenthal and Jacobson's (1968) study, Pygmalion in the Classroom, found that
a. teacher expectancy was uncorrelated with student performance. b. positive teacher expectations influenced student performance. c. negative teacher expectations influenced student performance. d. the self-fulfilling prophecy is common outside of educational settings.
Neither the subjects nor the experimenter recording the data knows which subjects belong to a particular group. This is an example of:
a. a confounding variable b. random assignment c. a double-blind experiment d. a single-blind experiment
An important insight that can be drawn from the research on happiness is that
A) ?money can buy happiness. B) ?attractive people are generally happy people. C) ?objective realities are not as important as subjective feelings. D) ?collectivist cultures are happier than individualistic cultures.
In the context of the immune system, ________ is a process by which a white blood cell engulfs a substance, usually an antigen or another cell, and digests it or moves it to a place where it will be destroyed.
A. cirrhosis B. inflammation C. neurogenesis D. phagocytosis