Which of the following facts has been viewed as good evidence that language is an adaptation?
a. Children make mistakes when learning the rules of language.
b. The vocal tract is perfectly tailored to meet the needs of spoken language.
c. Chimpanzees can be taught to use some manual signs to communicate.
d. The human ear is poorly designed for processing speech.
B
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A. the same environmental context B. a species-typical rearing environment C. species-atypical genes D. identical epigenetic factors
Someone with sleep apnea has trouble doing what?
a. Falling asleep b. Remembering dreams c. Staying awake during the day d. Breathing while asleep
Kleinknecht and colleagues (Kleinknecht, Dinnel, Kleinknecht, Hiruma, & Harada, 1997) assessed American and Japanese students and found that:
a) the Americans were less interdependent than the Japanese. b) the Americans were more interdependent than the Japanese. c) there were no differences on interdependent self-construals. d) there were cultural differences on independent self-construals.
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