Jen's 70-year-old Uncle Ben, who lives in the United States, just died. As a knowledgeable individual, Jen would realize that statistically, the most likely cause of his death was
a. heart disease.
b. suicide.
c. cancer .
d. cerebrovascular disease.
a
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Regarding human language development, which of the following statements is FALSE? a. Although all children experience the same stages of language development, there is a great variety in the ordering of the stages, as well as the ages at which the stages occur, depending on the culture. b. Children naturally acquire language by listening to the speech of others, long before they learn rules
of grammar as part of their formal education. c. By about 2.5 years of age, the average child speaks in full sentences and has a vocabulary over 500 words. d. Scientists are now beginning to locate genes involved in the development of brain mechanisms responsiblefor language and speech. e. Parents can help children develop language skills by talking and reading to them frequently, as well as by demonstrating proper language use and rewarding children for imitating it.
Brittany awakens on her wedding day and her legs are paralyzed. Her parents rush her to the emergency room. The hospital staff immediately notices that Brittany is strangely unconcerned by her condition. After numerous tests, the doctors have not found any physical reason for her paralysis. During the night, nurses also notice that Brittany moved her legs while she was asleep. Brittany's
"paralysis" appears to be due to a(n) __________ disorder. a. somatization b. organic mental c. conversion d. dissociative
What role did Fisher's statistical work play in the use of single-subject designs following the Fisher process?
a. Individual differences were ignored and averaged out. b. Individual differences were analyzed since they represented important variation. c. He advocated the use of single-subject designs. d. He developed special statistical procedures.
Your friend was bitten bya snake while out hiking in the woods. Now he gets verynervous
when he goes into the woods. In this case, the snake is known as a A) secondaryreinforcer B) conditioned stimulus C) unconditioned stimulus D) conditioned response