Erica is a two-year-old girl. She sees an owl for the first time and asks her mother what it is, and her mother replies that "it is an owl." Now, every time Erica sees a bird she calls it an "ool." This process is called _____
A) deferred imitation
B) overextension
C) habituation
D) canalization
B
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Select the best response, according to your text, to the statement, "My physics teacher yelled at me in front of the whole class."
a. Why did he do that? b. That's embarrassing. c. You should report him. d. Don't worry; he yells at everyone.
Last week, Dr. Diop gave her Multicultural Psychology class an exam that tested their mastery of the information she had presented for the first half of the course. This type of test, one that measures knowledge and progress,
is called a(n) __________ test. a. intelligence b. academic c. aptitude d. achievement
Delays, lack of resources, losses, and failures are all sources of ______ identified by your text
a. anxiety c. pressure b. frustration d. internal dissonance
Visual information from the retina is carried by __________ to the __________.
A. short axon fibers; optic chiasm B. ganglion cell axons; thalamic medial geniculate nucleus C. axons from bipolar cells; thalamic medial geniculate nucleus D. ganglion cell axons; dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus