Ron is an avid reader. He has a large vocabulary because every time he comes across a word he doesn't know, he looks it up in the dictionary. Ron encounters "wanderlust" in a novel, reaches for the dictionary, and finds out this word means "desire to travel." The process of looking up unfamiliar words increases Ron's
A. lexicon.
B. parser.
C. syntactical capacity.
D. mental set.
Answer: A
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b. Early marriage. c. Premarital sex. d. Sexual response.
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A) a flashbulb memory. B) transience. C) a semantic memory. D) consistency bias.
According to the “doctrine of ____________,” the subjective experience of sensation depends on which sensory system was stimulated not the agent (the physical stimulus) acting on the sensory system.
a. neural localization b. specific nerve energies c. cerebral localization d. cerebro-neural pathway
Shaina started crying because she thought that her brother disappeared, when in fact he just put on his Halloween mask. Piaget would say that Shaina is in the __________ stage and has not yet achieved __________.
A. sensorimotor; object permanence B. sensorimotor; conservation C. preoperational; object permanence D. preoperational; conservation