Children tend to fast map words that are ______.
A. told to them by people they know slightly
B. labels of events they find uninteresting
C. in contexts meaningful to them
D. told to them only once
Answer: C
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Illness in which actual physical damage results from emotional reactions to stress is known as
a. a somatoform disorder. b. hypochondrias. c. a physio-disturbance. d. a psychosomatic disorder.
Somatoform disorders are characterized by
a. a disturbance in expression of emotions. b. a complaint of physical problems such as paralysis, pain, or a persistent belief that one has a serious disease when one does not exist. c. the separation of mental processes such as thoughts, emotions, identity, memory, or consciousness. d. disturbances in thought and language, perception and attention, motor activity, and mood, as well as withdrawal and absorption in daydreams and fantasy.
Ali has a spider phobia. To overcome this phobia, his therapist has him develop a list of least-to-most feared situations involving spiders. Ali engaged in the least-feared situation, looking at spider pictures in a book. Then he moved to looking at a spider from across a room, touching a spider, and finally getting a tarantula as a pet. This method is known as __________, which incorporates __________.
A. systematic desensitization therapy; in vivo exposure B. progressive relaxation; imaginal exposure C. behavior modification; modeling D. punishment; flooding
In the Robber's Cave experiment, the hostility between the groups was ended by __________
a) bringing the groups together for social activities. b) declaring one group the winner over the other. c) declaring that both groups had tied and the competition was over. d) bringing the groups together to work on common problems.