Children between the ages of three and five incorrectly apply the rules of past tense and of plural when they say "sitted" instead of "sat" and "gooses" instead of "geese.". This phase of language development reflects
a. charming childish speech. c. faulty language development.
b. a beginning knowledge of grammar. d. inadequate instruction by parents.
B
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The key distinction between a true experiment and a quasi-experiment is that in quasi-experiments,
a. research is conducted in the "real world" not in the laboratory. b. individuals are not randomly assigned to different treatments. c. no statistical analysis is conducted. d. there is always a control group.
If an individual gets a recessive allele for eye color from both parents:
a. the gender of the child will determine if that trait is shown. b. the recessive trait will develop in the child. c. the trait will develop 50 percent of the time. d. the trait will be turned off and the dominant trait will be expressed.
Research examining the language competence of deaf adults found that __________
A) sign language can be learned equally well at any age B) childhood is a sensitive period for language acquisition C) those who learned ASL in adulthood were the most proficient D) there is no sensitive period for language acquisition
What did Solomon Asch discover in his series of experiments on conformity?
a. People tend to believe that their opinions are more objective and rational than those of others. b. People are very able to resist pressures to conform to the standards of others. c. People conform to the rules of a group because they have a need to empathize with others. d. People are very susceptible to the opinion of others and have a great need to conform.