Studies comparing language-impaired children with and without a positive family history for a language-based learning disability suggest that children with a positive family history may inherit ____
a. co-morbid behavior problems
b. temporal processing deficits
c. structural abnormalities in the temporal lobe
d. brain lesions in a pinpointed region
b
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Dwayne and his nine-year-old son are sitting at the breakfast table and talking about various things
The son mentions a dream he had about his favorite toy. Dwayne mentions a bizarre dream he had the previous night. These differences in the content of dreams is best explained by A) activation-synthesis theory. B) dream protection theory. C) neurocognitive theory. D) sleep dissociation theory.
Research on young children indicates that motor development is the result of ______
a. neither maturational factors nor practice b. almost exclusively maturational factors c. almost exclusively environmental factors such as practice d. a combination of maturation and practice
If a suspected witch was subjected to the "water-float test" and was found to be spiritually pure,
the suspect _______. a. was released b. was allowed to join a convent c. was given an exorcism to prevent future demonic possession d. drowned
If a psychologist limits his/her scientific pursuits to observed facts, and rejects any hypothetical, unobserved phenomena, s/he probably espouses the doctrine known as ___________.
a. positivism b. empiricism c. subjectivism d. precisionism